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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…
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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…
Kitty Taylor 