Learning to Teach Geography: Threshold Concepts and Powerful Knowledge
Threshold concepts essential for geography teachers and the concept of Powerful Knowledge in shaping teaching strategies for the digital age. Discover the critical issues in geography education and preparing children for the complexities of the modern world.
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Are there Threshold Concepts to develop when learning to become a geography teacher? David Lambert
What are threshold concepts? Transformative Irreversible Integrative Bounded Troublesome . Powerful ?
Powerful Knowledge [PDK] PDK is usually: abstract and theoretical (conceptual) part of a system of thought dynamic, evolving, changing but reliable testable and open to challenge sometimes counter-intuitive exists outside the direct experience of the teacher and the learner Discipline based (in domains that are not arbitrary or transient) PDK enables people (and societies) to think the yet-to-be-thought (after Bernstein 2000)
Two Issues Threshold Concepts in Geography? Threshold Concepts in Learning to Teach Geography?
Adopting a capabilities approach What should we teach, and how shall we do this? Why teach geography? Who are the children we teach?
What role does geography education play 6
in preparing children for this day and age ? 7
This Day And Age The digital age o Information at your fingertips o 24/7 news o Computing power: e.g. geospatial technologies Global threats o Asymmetric warfare and terror o Climate change o Unregulated capitalism and enormous inequalities Culture shifts o Three minutes (concentration span) o Selfies and celebrity ( famous for 15 minutes ) o Social media tyranny 8
To enable them to face the future with confidence, as capable human beings 9
The Key Issue Threshold Concepts in Learning to Teach Geography? Geography as powerful knowledge This may be expressed in different ways. For example, through: its threshold concepts? what it means to be able to think geographically But what drives this is the why question.
