School geography: exploring a definition

# Acknowledgements

Professor David Lambert is Chief Executive of the Geographical but remains Research Associate of the Institute of Education (London). He is a former secondary geography teacher (for 12 years) and developed a scholarly interest in assessment issues following the introduction of the national curriculum. He also has a research interest in the way teachers select and use textbooks with pupils. He has a long-standing concern with moral and cultural aspects of geography education and is currently interested in clarifying the nature and the role of disciplinary knowledge in learning to teach effectively.

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Twigg, S. (2004) Keynote Address at GA Annual Conference, Tuesday 6 April. © 2004 Stephen Twigg;

Goudie, A. ‘Schools and Universities – the Great Divide’, Geography, Vol. 78, Part 4, October 1993. The Geographical Association;

Standish, A. ‘Constructing a Value Map’, Geography, Vol. 88, No. 2, 2003, the Geographical Association. Originally published on Spiked, www.spiked-online.com;

Bonnett, A. ‘Geography as the world discipline: connecting popular and academic geographical imaginations’, Area, Vol. 35, No.1, 2003. The Royal Geographic Society (with The Institute of British Geographers). Blackwell Publishing.

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