Power of Geographical Thinking

Clare Brooks is Honorary Secretary of the International Geographical Union – Commission for Geography Education, and a member of the International Steering Group. She is also Chair of the UK Committee of the Commission.  As Senior Lecturer in Geography Education at the UCL Institute of Education, she was worked on post-graduate programmes in geography education for fifteen years. Her research interests are in teachers’ use of their subject knowledge and how teachers geographical knowledge influences classroom practices.Mary Fargher is a member of the UK Committee of the International Geographical Union - Commission for Geography Education. After six years working on post-graduate programmes, she now  leads the MA Geography in Education and Teach First geography programmes at UCL Institute of Education. Her research interests are in the use of geospatial technologies in supporting high quality teaching and learning in geography.<Lesson Planning (3rd edition) (2008), Making Assessment Matter (2010) and, as editor, Geography, Education and the Future (2011) and MasterClass in Geography Education (2015). Graham is a long established member of the Geographical Association and an invited member of the UK Committee of the International Geographical Union (IGU).tly="" field="" although="" has="" also="" published="" on="" assessment,="" teacher="" workload,="" modernisation="" teaching="" workforce.="" his="" books="" include modernising="" schools (2007,="" with="" helen="" gunter),

“Each chapter effectively conveys ideas about, strategies for, and implications of geographical thinking for a given context. Whether a reader is a recent arrival to the scholarship around geographical thinking, or is very familiar with such work, this book provides an opportunity to confirm, deepen, extend, and challenge their understanding and practice. … I encourage all who are involved in geography education to ensure The Power of Geographical Thinking becomes or remains priority reading.” (Susan Caldis, Curriculum Perspectives, Vol. 41 (1), 2021)“Every once and a while you get a textbook and go Wow! That really is valuable to me and my students! Well, it is ‘double wow!’ … . It is not only a most valuable addition to the library of in service and preservice teachers, and academics, but a book really worth the investment of time to engage with as a valuable resource and use to further enhance our practices – both in teaching and researching in geographical education.” (Ken Purnell, Geographical Education, Vol. 31, 2018)

• Chapter 1: Multicultural fieldwork to promote students’ intercultural competence.- Chapter 2: Listening to London’s young voices.- Chapter 3: Field work and geographic thinking amongst senior secondary students in Kano, Nigeria: the role of teachers.- Chapter 4: Thinking geographically and Spatial thinking in the Swedish curriculum in geography.- Chapter 5: The future in geographical thinking.- Chapter 6: Thinking space geographically.- Chapter 7: Geographical thinking and its role in climate change education: a case of Singapore.- Chapter 8: English geography textbook authors’ perspectives on developing pupils’ geographical knowledge and thinking.- Chapter 9: Geography teachers between formal training and teaching practices.- Chapter 10: How Geography as a school subject is defined in Singapore.- Chapter 11: Teach to develop geographical thinking.- Chapter 12: International differences in thinking  geographically, and why it matters.- Chapter 13: CyberGIS and Geographic Thinking.- Chapter 14: Geographical thinking through key concepts? Results of a symbiotic in-service teacher training course.- Chapter 15: What might powerful geographical knowledge look like?.- Chapter 16: Geographical Thinking: Is it a limitation or powerful thinking.- Chapter 17: Researching progress and sophistication in geography learning: Taking a critical stancet.- Chapter 18: Debating the place of knowledge within geography education: reinstatement, reclamation or recovery?.- Chapter 19: Reviewing the power of GIS-based enquiry learning in school geography.- Chapter 20: Students’ reflective thinking in geography lessons.- Chapter 21: The Feasibility Research of Bringing Fundamentals of Earth Science into Middle School Geography Curriculum of Mainland China - Based on Earth Science for the cultivation of students’ geographical thinking.- Chapter 22: Conceptualising  GeoCapabilities and appreciating of the power of thinking geographically.- Chapter  23: Supporting geographical thinking in the classroom – the teacher and curriculum control.- Chapter 24: Geographic thinking.- Chapter 25: Geography in England’s primary pre-service teacher education: challenges and possibilities.