geography
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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Wes Anderson’s delightfully fantastical The Grand Budapest Hotel, was released in 2014, and is Anderson’s highest grossing feature to date. Stuffed full of dreamscapes tied together by pastel ribbons, witty comedy, and stories within stories, within stories. Based on the popular Austrian writer, Stefan Zweig’s works, Anderson told a fictional yethistorically inspired account of the devastating but inevitable decline
Kitty Taylor 