Geography Education's Potential and the Capability Approach
GeoCapabilities and Schools
Authors: Bustin, Richard
Free Preview- Provides a persuasive argument for a knowledge led curriculum built around the powerful knowledge of school subjects
- Argues that the ‘powerful knowledge’ of geography as a subject in schools has a unique contribution to make to the education of young people, and should therefore be a central tenet in the school curriculum, promised to all young people
- Encourages all geography teachers to re-think the role they play in the big picture of education, and thus show school leaders and policy makers the value of the subject, and a subject based curriculum in the face of competing curriculum pressures
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- About this book
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This book explores the pivotal role that geography as a school subject plays in helping every young person achieve their educational potential. Expressed as ‘GeoCapabilities’, this concept draws on the the capabilities approach developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum applied to curriculum thinking in schools. While traditional subjects have often been deemed irrelevant and outdated in an overcrowded secondary school curriculum, subjects like geography have often been lost or combined with others to fulfil a broad skills agenda. More recent talk of a ‘knowledge led’ curriculum can often lead to the recitation of facts at the expense of developing deeper understanding. This book argues the concept of powerful geographical knowledge, based on the work of Michael Young and David Lambert, invests the subject of geography with its educational potential: this forms the basis of GeoCapabilities. GeoCapabilities focuses on both what is being taught and why, and as such provides a framework of curriculum thinking which will be of interest and value to geography teachers, school leaders with curriculum development responsibilities and all those interested in the capability approach and the moral imperative of education.
- About the authors
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Richard Bustin is Head of Geography at Lancing College, UK. He is also on the editorial board of the journal Teaching Geography and works with trainee geography teachers across the UK.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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What Is the Purpose of Schools?
Pages 1-32
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Mapping a Curriculum ‘Crisis’
Pages 33-66
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Bringing the ‘Geography’ Back in
Pages 67-97
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The ‘Capabilities Approach’ to Geography Education
Pages 99-130
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Developing GeoCapabilities: The Role of Research
Pages 131-157
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Geography Education's Potential and the Capability Approach
- Book Subtitle
- GeoCapabilities and Schools
- Authors
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- Richard Bustin
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-25642-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-25642-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-25641-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVIII, 197
- Number of Illustrations
- 12 b/w illustrations
- Topics
