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What constitutes a good A level geography education?
Teaching Geography ; 47(1):32-35, 2022.
Article in English | ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1755958
ABSTRACT
The impact of the most recent A level reforms (Department for Education (DfE), 2014) and changes to assessment arrangements as a consequence of COVID-19 revived the authors' interest in school-university transition. While the curriculum design process successfully built mandatory requirements for the said skills, it did not create any specific principles on how to embed other key competences-such as critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making - in the geography curriculum. [...]no systematic methodology exists that can help us define how these might differ in a geography curriculum when compared with other science or social science curricula. Whenever the next stage of the curriculum review cycle arrives, there is an opportunity to move towards (i) a more geographically specific mind-set in relation to a broader set of KSA/competences/ learning outcomes, and (ii) a course that is designed in ways that are much more clearly mindful of the majority of the 'who' and 'what' of A level geography's education purpose (Figure 2). Teachers commented that 'students can't get far without these skills', 'these are skills that develop independent thought and learning needed at university', 'they will be needed when studying * Have we become too concerned with 'minding the gap' between school and university subject specialist geography to the detriment of ensuring that broader competency outcomes are optimised for the vast majority of learners who do not progress to HE geography? * Should we be doing more to build a systematic methodology which far more clearly defines our expectations for A02 (assessment objective 2 - analysis and evaluation), along with attitudes, values and other 'soft' competences?
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Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: ProQuest Central Language: English Journal: Teaching Geography Year: 2022 Document Type: Article

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Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: ProQuest Central Language: English Journal: Teaching Geography Year: 2022 Document Type: Article