-
I teach geography standing up. This matters when your pelvis feels like it is collapsing in on itself, when the classroom clock ticks louder than any painkiller will allow, when lessons are measured not in minutes, but in how long your body will let you remain vertical. I have learned which parts of my body…
-
I wrote this piece in remembrance of my first month as an ECT1 and a celebration of the ‘spookiest’ months of the year. I come to geography not as a teacher first but as a geographer. My maps were never confined to textbooks; they traced coastlines, railway lines, and the streets of coastal towns layered…
-
How can we bring the imaginative, emotional, and sensory dimensions of geography into our lives in meaningful ways? This question sat with me throughout my master’s, particularly as I explored the work of scholars like Gillian Rose (1996), who challenged conventional teaching practices through visualised geographies, and Emilie Cameron (2012), whose work on storytelling opened…
-
After a compelling talk by Dan Raven-Ellison at the University of Exeter, I’ve been thinking deeply about how we understand, and teach, geography. As a geographer, explorer, and founder of several pioneering campaigns, Dan encouraged us to see the landscape not just as something to observe, but something to reimagine. His video “100 Seconds of…
-
Incorporating current geographical news into teaching is more than just a trend—it’s a powerful tool for boosting student engagement and making lessons come alive. Academic sources consistently highlight that integrating real-world events not only makes the subject matter more relevant, but also sparks curiosity and fosters personal connections to the content. But why does this…
-
Heritage and culture studies have a rich connection to the study of landscape and in turn, a has a lot of interdisciplinary relationships to the academics of geography. Within this coursework project, I would like to explore and examine the breadth and depth of the study of culture and heritage landscapes in relation to space,…
-
Introduction to Taxidermic Collections: Taxidermic collections grew to popularity within the Victorian period due to several factors involving advances in science, imperial attitudes, and distribution of ‘colonial trophies’ in museums and personal collections. There are individual nuances: political, social, and environmental, of each of these forms of rising taxidermy during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.…
-
Foote, K.E. (2003) Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy. Austin: University of Texas Press. Chapter 1: A Landscape of Violence and Tragedy, pp. 1-35. Kenneth E. Foote’s first chapter ‘A landscape of Violence and Tragedy’ in Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (2003), is a thorough and delightful introduction to the politics of memory, place, and tragedy.…
-
Across the last few decades, countless scholars have debated the concepts, methods and quality of studies that use a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, across several disciplines such as geography and sociology (Tashakkori & Creswell 2007). Specifically in geography, there has been a cultural turn within the last decade; Alan Latham argues that during…
-
Climate Change and Cattle Farming: How can cultural geography benefit agriculture in the South-West?
According to the governments summary for the agricultural industry in 2022, 69% of land in the UK is Utilised Arable Area’s (UAA’s) (UK Gov, 2022) , with a fifth of England’s total farmed area being in the South West (The House of Commons Library, 2023). Due to the importance of farms within the UK economically,…
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Kitty Taylor 