Mitchell, David;
Hanus, Martin;
Béneker, Tine;
Biddulph, Mary;
Leininger-Frézal, Caroline;
Zwartjes, Luc;
Donert, Karl;
(2022)
Enhancing Teachers’ Expertise Through Curriculum Leadership—Lessons from the GeoCapabilities 3 Project.
Journal of Geography
, 121
(5-6)
pp. 162-172.
10.1080/00221341.2022.2149838.
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Abstract
GeoCapabilities is a distinctive approach to teacher professional development which foregrounds the educational potential of geographical knowledge. This paper examines the effect of GeoCapabilities on geography teachers’ expertise. First, the paper explores a problem of teacher training which privileges technique for classroom effectiveness over geographical thinking. We then introduce the GeoCapabilities 3 project, presenting and discussing findings through teachers’ reflections. We argue that GeoCapabilities 3 offers a model of teacher development, which supports teachers as leaders of curriculum change in an ‘activist profession’. This is needed if geography education is to equip young people with knowledge capabilities for their future.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Enhancing Teachers’ Expertise Through Curriculum Leadership—Lessons from the GeoCapabilities 3 Project |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1080/00221341.2022.2149838 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00221341.2022.2149838 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Teachers’ expertise; professional development; disciplinary knowledge; GeoCapabilitites; powerful geography |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10162156 |
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