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: 11 Number: 1 Page: 15–29
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'Teaching Geography for a Better World'? The Postmodern Challenge and Geography Education
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John Morgan
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This paper offers a discussion of the role of 'critical' geography education in the light of debates about postmodernism in geography and education. After a brief discussion of the features of 'critical'
geography education, the paper discusses postmodernism. In particular, it focuses on the role of language, the postmodern concern with difference, and the implications of postmodernism for critical pedagogy.
The paper then provides an example of how postmodernist ideas might inform the teaching of urban geography.
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