GeoCapabilities has worked with associate teachers from the UK, Belgium, Czech Republic and the Netherlands. The activities and outcomes of the work of these teachers has been presented as a series of case studies.

Specifically the purpose was to develop a series of learning opportunities with innovative teaching ideas to trial the suitability of the GeoCapability approach with their school students. All the participating associate schools face various long-term challenging circumstances. These involve: location of the region (periphery), economy (higher levels of population poverty; structural changes – e.g., decline of industrial (textile, mining) areas etc.), and society and demography (changing demographics; migrant population; socio-economic deprivation etc.). Obviously, in most of the cases schools face a combination of these challenges.

Each of the project partners, together with his/her associate schools, carried out a case study consisting of planning, teaching and evaluation of lessons on migration to develop social justice. The GeoCapabilities approach was used in all phases.

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Members of the GeoCapabilities Project participated in the recent International Geographic Union Commission for Geographic Education (IGU-CGE) conference held in Prague and online.

Project partners participated in a panel discussion about what makes learning Geography powerful. The session also look at project sustainability and future perspectives for GeoCapabilities.

As a project, GeoCapabilities 3 has been addressing the area of social justice.

the project has set out to consider the ways in which all pupils, regardless of their social, cultural and economic context, can learn powerful geographies.

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The GeoCapabilities 3 project has addressed teaching about migration, a topic considered very challenging to address by the teachers associated with the project

As a subject Geography is deals with many topics that relate to challenging issues. The 1992 International Charter on Geographical Education advocates for the development by students of attitudes and values in their geographical education. Leading classroom discussions about these areas can be problematic.

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The GeoCapabilities 3 project has published its teacher toolkit.

The toolkit targets geography teachers working in schools in challenging circumstances, supporting them in adopting a GeoCapabilities approach for social justice.

The presentation here provides an overview of the Teacher toolkit.

GeoCapabilities 3 Teacher Toolkit Overview

Members of the GeoCapabilities Project participated in the recent International Geographic Union Commission for Geographic Education (IGU-CGE) conference held in Prague and online.

This presentation from the GeoCapabilities 3 project looks at how to make the teaching of Geography more powerful and meaningful to students. It examines access to and use of relevant and ‘new’ academic knowledge by teachers in the project.

Members of the GeoCapabilities Project participated in the recent International Geographic Union Commission for Geographic Education (IGU-CGE) conference held in Prague and online.

This presentation from the GeoCapabilities 3 project looks at a social justice framework. Social Justice is described as a set of ideas underpinning the GeoCapabilities 3 project, which are broken down in the presentation into more workable and manageable ideas.

Members of the GeoCapabilities Project participated in the recent International Geographic Union Commission for Geographic Education (IGU-CGE) conference held in Prague and online.

This presentation from the GeoCapabilities 3 project which looks at ‘vignettes’ as a way for teachers to connect with disciplinary knowledge and teaching about challenging geography topics in schools, framed by a social justice context.

GeoCapabilities has become an important geographical education approach used in many countries around the world. It is directly used in schools and teacher training across Europe, Americas, Asia and Australia with related applied research.

This activity expands knowledge about the benefits and limitations of using the GeoCapabilities approach. The GeoCapabilities 3 project has produced an extended bibliography of published research.

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