GEReCo Update Graham Butt GTE Conference Swansea University Prifysgol Abertawe January

Geography Education Research Collective (GEReCo) 'A collective dedicated to the promotion of geography education through research and publication‘ Research and Masters/PhD databases: Pro formas circulated to attendees at the last GTE conference (Matlock Bath): one to capture current research into the GNC; one to request titles/abstracts of Masters' dissertations/ research theses (from ). Literature reviews: ‘GNC’ and ‘Learning to Teach’: Scoping literature reviews to be attached to the GEReCo website. Intended audience of PGCE students, Masters students and PhD researchers; it was also felt that education policy makers and geography educationists might be interested.

Geography, Education and the Future: A copy was sent to the Minister for Schools, Nick Gibb and his civil servant, Barbara Tucker. ESRC Seminar Series: Submitted a revised bid in November A 'bolder‘ statement reviewing the future role for geography in the curriculum, with a wider appeal to other subject areas (social sciences and history educators, who will key note at two of the six seminars). Strategic Plan for GEReCo: The existing Strategic Plan for GEReCo (to 2012) is posted on the website.

GNC Review: Considered the GA's 'Curriculum Proposals and Rationale' document for the review of the GNC. GEReCo members have made contributions about the place of knowledge/ ‘knowledge turn’ in geography education (see G,E and F, Curriculum Journal, Engaging Geography seminars, etc). Future research agenda for GEReCo will be partly shaped by this theme, but with a need to be strategic and meet the demands of the REF agenda. MasterClass Geography: GEReCo approached to author/edit a book for the MasterClass (Continuum/Bloomsbury) series, by Sue Brindley (University of Cambridge). This book is to have a clear dialogic framework. Members felt that this would be best developed through linking it to a seminar series (ESRC). Publication 2014.

Conferences: GTE Conference, Matlock Bath (University of Nottingham) 2011; GA conference in Surrey 2011; IGU-CGE conference in London 2011; GTE conference, Swansea 2012; AAG, New York, February 2012; GA conference in Manchester, April ‘Supporting the work of Post Graduate Research Students, and their Supervisors, in Geography Education’. University of Birmingham, 14 March 2012: Afternoon 'workshop’ to support PhD/EdD students and supervisors, focussing on geographical inputs (as opposed to generic/ induction to 'general research‘ inputs). Audience n=10.