David Lambert gave a keynote lecture to the 2010 SSAT annual conference on Friday 26 November. He addressed round 1500 school leaders on the question: are subjects in crisis? Obviously he focussed on geography and made some positive remarks about the recent White Paper The Importance of Teaching and its intention to recentre the school curriculum on 'knowledge'. You can see a video of David's lecture on the SSAT website (take a look at Dylan Wiliam's session while you're there....) The slides that David used (you might want to listen to the presentation while watching the slides, or put them side by side on the screen...) are available via SLIDESHARE ... and have been embedded below... November 2010 SSAT Presentation View more presentations from GeoBlogs . If you're snowbound today & your school is closed take a look... Think of it as a little impromptu CPD P.S: This is my 1,111 th post on this blog...
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Geography in education Lost in the post?David Lambert Inaugural Professorial Lecture Institute of Education - 23rd June Some say we live in postmodern times. In addition, many schools now seem to be embracing a post-disciplinary approach to the curriculum. And geography itself has fragmented, struggling for its identity and arguably lost - in the "post". But this lecture does not dwell for long on this argument. On the contrary, it argues that contemporary geography is a school subject of great significance and has a lot to offer children and young people growing up in a confusing, rapidly changing and dangerous world. Well prepared teachers can use this subject in a way that contributes to both their own and their students' "capabilities".Geography is re-emerging as a subject discipline for its times, both in academia and in the public realm. In the context of our collective need more fully to understand the human occupancy of the Earth, geography in schools ha...
A night out in London ? If you are in London on the evening of the 23rd of June, you may want to get yourself over to the Institute of Education to catch David Lambert's professorial lecture. ‘Geography in Education: lost in the post?’ Tuesday 23rd June 2009 5.30pm for 6pm start Jeffery Hall, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL Some say we live in postmodern times. Partly connected to this, a number of schools seem to be embracing a post-disciplinary approach to the curriculum. Geography itself has fragmented, is struggling for its identity and is arguably lost - in the ‘post’. I will not dwell for long on this argument. On the contrary, I will argue that contemporary geography is a school subject of great significance and has a lot to offer children and young people growing up in a confusing, rapidly changing and dangerous world. Well prepared teachers can use this subject in a way that contributes to both their own and their students’ ‘capabilitie...