GEReCo
GEReCo is an active group of geography educationists. This is our website and occasional blog. Find out more via the buttons above.
GEReCo exists in order to
- undertake and promote high quality research and scholarship in geography education,
- disseminate widely, through publications, electronic media, conferences and seminars, state of the art findings in geography education research,
- develop, promote and evaluate critical perspectives and new knowledge in geography education,
- actively propose and develop new research projects and seek funding from educational trusts, Research Councils and/or governmental sources,
- facilitate a research, discussion and publication forum, which meets at least three times a year, and
- add value and impact to the research activities of the international geography education community.
Activities and outputs
GEReCo meets in Autumn, Spring and Summer. This is to discuss strategy, identify opportunities, update each other on our current work and to coordinate any shared projects. You can find out more under ‘Our meetings’ near the bottom of this page.
Highlights of recent achievements include open seminars (eg on ‘powerful knowledge’ with Michael Young and a reply from Margaret Roberts); editing a special forum in International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education providing perspectives on geography education research; editing a special issue of RIGEO on geography in primary education; the publication of two books:
i. Graham Butt (ed) (2011) Geography, education and the future
ii. Graham Butt (ed) (2015) MasterClass in Geography Education
GEReCo members have also contributed sessions to the RGS-IBG, AAG and GA annual conferences, contributed to the annual Geography Teacher Education conference, written letters and blog posts, held special seminars and published academic and professional articles.
The priorities are now twofold:
i. to develop a ‘ground up’ research initiative that meets Roger Firth’s demand that “there is a need for a more theoretically informed articulation of knowledge and the relation between knowledge and the curriculum and pedagogy” (Firth 2013 p 71).
ii. to develop a successful proposal with the Education Endowment Fund (EEF). This will link closely with the conceptual underpinnings informing the ‘ground up’ research initiative in (i) above.
Strategic Gaze for the current year
Research plans/proposals
Development of an EEF research proposal developing geographical thinking using concept mapping techniques: Clare Brooks
Developing ‘inferentialist’ approached using of small scale interventions with PGCE students: Roger Firth
Horizon 2020 Marie Curie proposal for a GeoCapabilities inspired Innovative Training Network (ITN): David Lambert/Humboldt University, Berlin
Pupils Understanding of Climate Change: developing a pilot instrument (Madison/NIE Singapore/UCL-IOE): Clare Brooks
Writing an authored book reviewing and exploring the prospects of research in geography education: Graham Butt
Specific links and relationship building {2016-17}
IGU-CGE: Clare Brooks elected Chair in 2016
NCGRE: long standing links and collaborations: (All)
Europe: eg ROSE Seeking to establish links in 2017 (UCL-IOE); Eurogeo: (All)
Our Meetings
We meet three times in each academic year. Click the links below to read their abridged minutes:
November 2017 | July 2017 | March 2017|November-2016 | July-2016 | March 2016 | November 2015 | July 2015 | March 2015 | November 2014 | July 2014 | March 2014 | January 2014 | May 2013 | March 2013 | November 2012 | July 2012 | March 2012 | November 2011 | July 2011 | March 2011 | November 2010 | June 2010 | March 2010
Photograph reproduced under Creative Commons license from here.
