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: 4 Page: 313–324
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Exploring Different 'Perspectives' in Secondary Geography: Professional Development Options
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Lex Chalmers, Paul Keown and Ashley Kent
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Significant changes have occurred in the worlds of geography since 1973, and a substantial literature has emerged about these changes and their effects on the 'divide' between secondary and tertiary geographers.
Wesuggest that while thedividehasnot had much effect on the content taught in secondary geography in New Zealand and Britain, exposure to a range of perspectives on this content is a neglected area of professional
development. Post-Fordism and deep ecology are described as perspectives that are not widely usedin delivering secondary geography content. Weargue firstly that effective use of different perspectives needs
to be based on professional, personal and social change, and secondly that the Internet is a powerful tool in the engineering of such change.
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