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Ethnogeography
A future for primary geography?
Everyday geography
School geography
A new paradigm for primary geography?
• That enables learners to recognise the value of their everyday experiences and that they are already thinking geographically in their everyday lives
• That is suited to the context that they are living (and working) in
• Ethnogeography (geography of people, culture)
Ethnomathematics
• A key assumption in this field … is that, through interacting in a myriad of daily-life activities, people already think and, more specifically, they think mathematically Frankenstein and Powell (1994:74)
A dichotomy in education
• Subjectivity and objectivity
• Action and reflection
• Teaching and learning
• Knowledge and its applications
• Practical, everyday knowledge and abstract, theoretical knowledge
The place of geography in education
• What is it for?• Why is it in the
curriculum?• To make the world a
better place?• To learn to live ‘well’ in
the world?• To work towards a just
and sustainable society?
Freirian concept of education
The dominant discourse is that of the powerful and does nothing to reflect the lived experiences or culture of the oppressed
- Students (ITE)- Pupils (primary schools)- Teachers (National Curriculum)
Linking practical and academic
• Within a liberatory paradigm the voice of the academic or specialist should not be ignored
• To replace the privileging of one group with that of another would be just a questionable
Geographical Imagination
• Place• Scale• Location• Function • Social, economic,
environmental and political dimensions
• Sustainable development
Geographical Imagination
• Where are the people?
• Where am I in this?• What has it to do
with me?• Why should I care
about this place?
Geographical Imagination
• Tourism• Local-global links• Culture and social
injustice• Scale• Awe and wonder• Fragility of
environments• Sustainable
development
Linking practical and academic
• How can we enable learners to see the link between everyday experiences and the ways in which geographers make sense of the world?
Ethnogeographical Imagination
Ethnogeography GeographicalImagination
K/S/U/V ???
Everyday geography
School geography
Ethnogeography - whose voices?
• Pupils - Simon Catling, Arthur Kelly, Susan Pike, Nicola Ross and Chris Spencer (IRGEE 2005 in press)
• Students - Simon Catling (2004), Fran Martin (2000, 2004, 2005)
• Teachers - ???? • People in place and space, being-in-the-world:
phenomenological origins of geography, personal geographies