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Unpacking ‘paradise’: geography education narratives from Seychelles
- Indra Persaud, Institute of Education
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PARADISE?
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PARADISE?Image courtesy of R. Bustin, with permission
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REALITYPhoto: Indra Persaud
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As a starting point I use the model representing three competing forces that influence geography curriculum-making
The model was produced as part of the Action Plan for Geography (www.geography.org.uk/cpdevents/curriculummaking)
and found in Teaching Geography 11-18, A Conceptual Approach by David Lambert and John Morgan (2010, p50)
I re-construct the model to illustrate examples of unbalanced curriculum-making
The model is then adapted to represent the Seychelles context
The model is closely related to Schwab’s (1973) four commonplaces for curriculum making; subject matter, learners, teachers and milieu and
Hart’s (2009) trinity of educational practice
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Taking students
beyond what they know
Underpinned by Key
Concepts
Thinking geographically
Learning Activities
Milieu (Schwab, 1973): the classroom, school and wider social
context
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Disenfranchised from geographical
knowledge
Pedagogic Maverick
Certain key concepts ignored, subject at
risk of being emptied out
Annotation based on ideas from Lambert & Morgan (2010)
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The subject is the only source of geographical knowledge and the teacher is the only source
of creative energy
Passive recipient, empty vessel Annotation based
on Lambert & Morgan (2010)
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British based disciplinary knowledge
Cambridge exams
Seychellois teachers and students marginalised?
Seychelles Context
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Can Seychellois geography teachers become confident, collaborative curriculum makers
rather than curriculum takers?
Through curriculum conversations, the research will explore Seychellois geography
teachers narratives
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ReferencesAction Plan for Geography. www.geography.org.uk/cpdevents/curriculummaking
Hart, T (2009) From Information to Transformation, Education for the Evolution of Consciousness. Revised Edition, Peter Lang
Lambert, D and Morgan, J (2010) Teaching Geography 11-18, A Conceptual Approach.
Schwab, J. J. (1973) The Practical 3: Translation into Curriculum, The School Review, 81:4 pp501-522, The University of Chicago Press