International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Editors: A/Prof John Lidstone, Queensland University of Technology and Prof Joseph P. Stoltman, Western Michigan University
Book Review Editor: Dr Sarah Witham Bednarz, Texas A & M University
Editorial Assistant: Donna Bennett, Australia
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Volume: 10 Number: 3 Page: 284–297
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Popular Culture and Geography Education
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John Morgan
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According to a range of commentators, school life is becoming increasingly marginal to how young people inform, present and position themselves as social actors. This suggests that the 'geographical imaginations'
of the students taught in schools are largely shaped outside of the classroom, through television, films, travel and consumption. This paper offers some reflections on the implications of such a 'cultural
pedagogy' for school geography. It discusses the erosion of the boundaries between schooling and popular culture and the ways in which geography has traditionally been suspicious of popular knowledges.
The paper considers the potential of recent work in cultural geography to develop a geography education that engages with popular culture, and goes on to discuss the type of pedagogy that might be suited
to such a task.
© Channel View Publications 2002
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