1. David Lambert
IoE/GA

2. Living Geography

3. Me, I’m geography

4. Curriculum Making
How does this take the learner beyond what they already know?
Learning Activity
Student Experiences
Teacher Choices
Geography: the subject
Underpinned by Key Concepts
Thinking Geographically

5. Living Geography Does this ‘brand’ have legs?
Why brand? What’s wrong with what we’ve got?
What does it mean?
To teachers, young people, parents, politicians/policy makers

6. Living Geography embraces young people’s geographies
is current and futures oriented
is often ‘local’ but always set in wider (global) contexts
investigates changing environments
encourages a critical understanding of ‘sustainable development’ 6

7. Young People’s Geography …
A YPG curriculum will:  
be planned through dialogue: between teachers, young people, teacher educators and academic geographers
draw from young people’s everyday experiences
extend the way that young people are involved in, and can directly influence, the curriculum
emphasise dialogic pedagogies
enable young people to use their capacity to think geographically when encountering the world 7

8. Geo-capability What do we want this to evoke?
‘world-awareness’
space-perspective
futures-orientation
How can we best express this?
KUSV?