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Seminar: GeoCapabilities: curriculum-making and powerful knowledge - an international collaboration

Örbring, David LU (2015)
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The presentation outlined GeoCapabilities approach as a way of highlighting the importance of geographical knowledge in a wider context and how this raises issues about the subject’s ‘underdog’ position in the curriculum. The seminar discussion focussed on the following points: 1. A music education specialist referred to the low status of subjects as ‘legitimation sickness’ and considered that music and geography have this in common recognising a similar tendency (necessity?) to defend the discipline, noted within some of the literature in music education e.g. The Wow Factor by Anne Bamford. This raised the question as to whether ‘defence of a subject’ detracts from from a ‘capability approach’ or is it within its purpose? Geocapabilities would argue that understanding the value of geographical knowledge through powerful disciplinary knowledge should be embedded in the work of a teacher – and thus help to claim the subject’s value in the curriculum. 2. Many participants registered interested in curriculum-making especially in relation to developing projects in schools and suggested that further investigation into curriculum-making in relation to the Swedish context and subject didactics might prove interesting. 3. A sociologist remarked that Amartha Sen refers to ‘vital knowledge’– which highlights knowledge as vital in relation to education, suggesting that further investigation into the relation between welfare and capabilities (in the context of geography) would be helpful. 4. The GeoCapability project is focused on educating teachers and affecting curriculum-making - and participants raised questions as to the extent to which this approach integrates influence from students in the curriculum-making process.
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387aaccd-fc09-45f2-bbb1-e8ff578af24c (old id 8499637)
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http://www.geocapabilities.org/#!previous-events/cof3
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2016-04-04 13:25:12
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  title        = {{Seminar: GeoCapabilities: curriculum-making and powerful knowledge - an international collaboration}},
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  year         = {{2015}},
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