With the introduction of the Australian Curriculum: Geography (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2012) a new frontier in geographical education has arrived. It provides an opportunity to reinvigorate as well as expand geographical education in Australia across all year levels of schooling. We argue that having both informed prescription from the curriculum document, and informed professionalism by teachers is critical for quality geographical education. With this backdrop, we explore the guided inquiry approach as the fit-for-purpose pedagogy that enables students and teachers to develop specific geography knowledge and understanding, skills and dispositions
In this theoretical article we draw on the concepts of powerful knowledge and powerful pedagogies to...
This thesis explores geography teachersâ subject knowledge, contributing a detailed empirical study ...
"Geography education is indispensable to the development of responsible and active citizens in the p...
The compulsory learning areas of geography and science in the Australian Curriculum have inquiry as ...
Within Australia, globalization, contentious connections with Asia, and an increasing concern with s...
The introduction of Geography as a compulsory learning area from Foundation year, such as Kindergart...
Geography will be a compulsory school subject in Australian schools in the near future. The national...
The idea for this paper emerged from a recent qualitative investigation which examined the ways in w...
P-12 geography courses are often taught as a body of facts students should learn in order to be geog...
This paper argues that curriculum thinking in education has been enormously influential on selecting...
In the context of continuing pressures from managerialist and neoliberal drivers of university refor...
In Australia, for more than two decades, a ‘social science’ integrated framework was the favoured ap...
In recent years there has been a number of geography curricula which have emphasized an inquiry lear...
In the context of continuing pressures from managerialist and neoliberal drivers of university refor...
In the Australian schools subject teaching is not prioritized. The curriculum is based on the gener...
In this theoretical article we draw on the concepts of powerful knowledge and powerful pedagogies to...
This thesis explores geography teachersâ subject knowledge, contributing a detailed empirical study ...
"Geography education is indispensable to the development of responsible and active citizens in the p...
The compulsory learning areas of geography and science in the Australian Curriculum have inquiry as ...
Within Australia, globalization, contentious connections with Asia, and an increasing concern with s...
The introduction of Geography as a compulsory learning area from Foundation year, such as Kindergart...
Geography will be a compulsory school subject in Australian schools in the near future. The national...
The idea for this paper emerged from a recent qualitative investigation which examined the ways in w...
P-12 geography courses are often taught as a body of facts students should learn in order to be geog...
This paper argues that curriculum thinking in education has been enormously influential on selecting...
In the context of continuing pressures from managerialist and neoliberal drivers of university refor...
In Australia, for more than two decades, a ‘social science’ integrated framework was the favoured ap...
In recent years there has been a number of geography curricula which have emphasized an inquiry lear...
In the context of continuing pressures from managerialist and neoliberal drivers of university refor...
In the Australian schools subject teaching is not prioritized. The curriculum is based on the gener...
In this theoretical article we draw on the concepts of powerful knowledge and powerful pedagogies to...
This thesis explores geography teachersâ subject knowledge, contributing a detailed empirical study ...
"Geography education is indispensable to the development of responsible and active citizens in the p...