Re-imaging place through the creative use of text
GA Annual Conference
Friday 9 April, 2010.
Mark Jones
PGCE Geography Tutor
University of the West of England
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Geography
and English
collaborations
Landscapes of
Language
Town as Text
Exploring place and space …
With who ?
Where ?
How ?
Exploring place and space … With who ?
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Value ‘knowledge that falls outside
traditional subject boundaries’
opportunities for complex projects that
incorporate several subject perspectives…..
recognise that knowledge is not
static or compartmentalised and
that its interconnectiveness is
often the cornerstone of creativity
(QCA 2005,p.7)
Teacher
Cultures
Fragmented individualism
Balkanization
Collaborative culture
Contrived collegiality
( Hargreaves, 2004 )
Teacher
Cultures
Fragmented individualism
Balkanization
Collaborative culture
Contrived collegiality
( Hargreaves, 2004 )
Moving mozaic
Exploring place and space …
With who ?
Where ?
How ?
Classroom
Outdoor
learning
Landscapes of Language
English
Geography
Y9 post SATs English lessons
LEDC Tourism through a range of media and genres
What do you think this country is like?
Explanation of the Flag of Kenya
Black Majority
Peace
Blood
Masai Shield and spears:
defence of freedom
Natural Wealth
Questioning reliability of sources
Unreliable
Reliable
What issues and questions were raised by doing this activity?
Where can we get sources of
information on Kenya?
• internet, travel brochures, travel guide
books, TV holiday programmes, films,
photographs, postcards, people who
have been, diaries, autobiographies,
news reports, recipes, newspapers,
radio, atlas, blogs, micro blogs e.g.
twitter, school text and reference
books, people from Kenya
Out of Africa
Karen Blixen
Images removed for copyright reasons
Map of Kenya
BILL
BRYSON’S
AFRICAN
DIARY
Homework: Fiction writing
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Write the opening of a story which is set in
Kenya. In this you should:
introduce a main character -write in first
person narrative style
include reference to factual geographical
information which you have researched,
using technical vocabulary
encourage the reader to want to read on
design a front cover & title
Produce a code: How to be a responsible
tourist. Either:
1. Storyboard for an in-flight video
2. Instruction sheet to be located in
the seat pocket
3. Version aimed at younger travellers
e.g. informative cartoons, poster
4. Something of your choice
‘seeing tourism
in a new way’
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0 Range of media
1st Qtr
in TLS
‘Fascinating’
‘I realised that English
does need geography
to work effectively’
Creative use of
Emotional
2nd Qtr lit. 3rd Qtr
fact in fiction
Year 9 student comments
Question -What have these 5 lessons felt like?
Geography
4th Qtr
More Geography than3rd
English
Qtr
2nd Qtr
English & Geography
1st Qtr
English
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10
20
30
40
% students’ responses
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‘Geography in stories makes
them more realistic’
‘In English there should be geography in
whatever you do and the same in geography
there should be English’
‘English needs geography
to be convincing’
‘We had to use geographical facts
in our story writing,.. that writing is
more effective if it has facts in..’
English and geography are
both dependent on each other’
‘I can see how you tried
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to link geography and English
but for me it was just one lesson’
Year 9 student comments
Exploring place and space …
With who ?
Where ?
How ?
Learners should have opportunities
across the curriculum to:
• be curious
• question and challenge
• make connections and see
relationships
• envisage what might be
• speculate about
possibilities
• explore ideas
• think laterally, 'outside the
box'
• keep options open
• reflect critically on ideas,
(QCA
actions and outcomes.
2007)
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Source: David Job (1999) New Directions in Geographical Fieldwork p.23
PRSC
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Cabot
Circus
Retail, entertainment
Harbourside
Old
City
Town as Text: reading the city
Stoke’ Croft
Broadmead
Castle Green
Corn Street
Old brewery site
Queen’s Square
Redcliffe
© Google Earth
Old Market
Activities
Written/drawn
Video Camera
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• Photographs for display
(up/down/out of place,
beautiful, ugly,
dangerous, exciting.
• Video
Word sketch
Emotional map
Sensory impressions
Poetry – haiku
Poetry – street name
Directions –map, written
Sense of place - narrative
Still images with captions
Letter to Evening Post
Text Trail
to be discovered …
Outcome 1 -- Interactive Display
Photograph
Question
Poem
Photograph
Question
Street
poem
Outcome 2 - Movie maker
• Time – 1 minute maximum
• Must have music, video, image,
transitions, captions
• Audience
• Purpose – promotional, campaign,
• Geographical issue/theme e.g. retail ,
redevelopment, traffic, tourism, quality of
environment, homelessness
Haiku
UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010
UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010
Acrostic
Street names
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Poetry – street name
Activity – take a street name you know
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Activity – take a street name you don’t know
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Activity – take a street name you don’t know
Stoke’s Croft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3rth_ZItfA&feature=related
Images
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Affective mapping
Book cover and
opening chapter
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Chapter 1- Beginnings
The city had awoken early.
The first shoppers of the
day shuffled along, eyes
cast down towards the litter
strewn pavements.
Oblivious to the stirring
bodies lying beneath the
cardboard and street
detritus of the revellers of
the night before …..
City of
Shame
Ann Rother
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opening chapter
UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010
Emotional view
UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010
Display
UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010
monopoly
UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010
UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010
Haiku
UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010
Wordle
UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010
wordscape
Text trail
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Avoiding the pedagogic adventure
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Bloom 1956; Anderson & Krathwohl 2001
Evaluation
Creating
Synthesis
Evaluating
Analysis
Application
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Understanding
knowledge
Remembering
Bloom
1956
Anderson, & Krathwohl
2001
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Reading the landscape
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Deep description
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City as site of consumption
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Cathedral of Consumerism
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To travel with a different view
Reference list
Anderson, L W, & Krathwohl ,D. R. (eds.) (2001). A Taxonomy
for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York: Longman
Geographical Association (2009) a different view: a manifesto
from the Geographical Association. Sheffield, GA.
Hargreaves, A. (2004) Changing teachers, changing times;
teachers’ work and culture in the postmodern age. London:
Continuum.
Job, D. (1999) New Directions in Geographical Fieldwork. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
QCA (2005) Futures: Meeting the challenge.
QCA (2007) Secondary Curriculum Review Consultation document.