This week John spoke to Dr Stephen Scoffham, former GA President, Visiting Reader in Sustainability and Education at Canterbury Christ Church University and author of atlases, text books and much more besides.
John and Stephen covered a lot of ground, including why geography matters, what makes good quality geography teaching, tackling controversial issues, capital cities, whether geography should be taught as a single subject or integrated, and the Collins Atlas series.
Thanks to Collins for sponsoring series 6 of GeogPod.
Purchase the Collins Atlas series on the GA Shop.
Some of the recent GA publications Stephen has been involved in:
Leading Primary Geography
Geography Plus: The UK: Investigating who we are
Episode #56: Ryan Ing - High altitude weather balloons and marine terminating glaciers
Episode #55: Dr Joe Usher - Getting children involved in local places
Episode #54: Dawn Gessey-Jones - Know where you are, know who you are
Episode #53: Alan Parkinson and Paula Richardson - Fieldwork: a shared experience for everybody
Episode #52: Gill Miller - Live your geography!
Episode #51: Dr Sarah Greene - Past climates, fieldwork and belonging
Episode #50: Natasha Dowey - The importance of geoscience in a more sustainable society
Episode #49: David Gardner – Planning a Coherent Curriculum
Episode #48: Sylvia Knight - Royal Meteorological Society
Episode #47: Dr Tim Daley & Kate Stockings - Climate Change and the Climate Crisis
Episode#46 Shenona Mitra - Youth Climate Action
Episode #45: Michila Critchley - InterClimate Network
Episode #44: Kirstin Coughtrie - Technology in education, Gaia Learning & Britannica
Episode #43: David Alcock - ‘Hopeful geography‘
Episode #42: Caiti Walter - The building blocks of curriculum design
Episode #41: Dr Simon Carr - ”Our eyes are the most sophisticated piece of geographical equipment we have”
Episode #40: Dr Amber Murrey - Geographies of race and racialisation and designing an anti-racist curriculum
Episode #39: Professor Ben Hennig - Iceland, Worldmapper, Trump tweets & more
Episode #38: Jamie Woodward - Understanding climate change during the Quaternary and microplastic transport and storage in river catchments
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