Learning outcomes Once you have completed this unit you will be able to: clarify your own ideas on literacy criticism; explore with your pupils what makes a good book; produce a range of writing frames to encourage pupils to write book reviews; encourage your pupils to follow some of the award schemes for children's books and perhaps start one of your own.
4.1 Introduction Collective oeuvres* produce and sustain group solidarity. They help make a community. Works and works-in-progress create shared and negotiable ways of thinking in a group … externalising, in a word, rescues cognitive activity from implicitness, making it more public, negotiable and solidary. (Bruner, 1996, p. 22) *An oeuvre is normally defined as the total output of an individual writer or ar
1.4 What is creativity? All people are capable of creative achievements in some areas of activity, provided the conditions are right, and they have acquired the relevant knowledge and skills … creative possibilities are pervasive in the concerns of everyday life, its purposes and problems … creative activity is also pervasive … creativity can be expressed in collaborative as well as individual activities, in teamwork, in 3 A diversity of views Another vital strategy for survival (or for the justification of survival) is for geography teachers to teach well. Given the wealth and range of lively material available to geography teachers and the richness of life in the real world, it ought to be rare for a geography teacher not to be able to interest or stimulate students in some part of the subject on its own merits (Walford, 2001, p. 238) 2 The purposes of geography in schools The evidence shows that students who study geography through their school lives become some of the most employable people in our society. The organisation [the Geographical Association] comments: ‘Surely all parents would wish their children to engage with a subject that improves their life chances and helps them to develop an informed concern for the world and an ability and willingness to take positive action, both l Learning outcomes The learning outcomes of this unit are: review some of the recent debates about the place of geography in the school curriculum; consider the different aims of geographical education; links for further study 2 The subject discipline Click 'play' to watch the file
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