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ERIC Number: EJ1025183
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1038-2046
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Looking at and Looking Along: A Conceptual Framework for Teaching Different Perspectives in Geography
Puttick, Steven
International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, v22 n4 p353-366 2013
This paper builds on arguments made by Chalmers, Keown, and Kent ["Exploring Different 'Perspectives' in Secondary Geography: Professional Development Options." "International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education," 11(4), 313-324 (2002)], about teaching different theoretical perspectives in geography. A conceptual framework developed by C.S. Lewis is discussed and offered as one way of facilitating the teaching of different perspectives. The framework involves an analytic distinction between looking "at" and looking "along." Looking "at" is associated with abstract, external, impersonal, uninvolved knowledge. Looking "along" is presented in terms of participant, inhabited, personal, committed knowledge. The analytic distinction between these approaches is applied to geography education using the perspectives suggested by Chalmers et al. of post-Fordism and deep ecology. Suggestions are made to illustrate what it might mean to look "at" and look "along" both of these theoretical perspectives. An argument is made that the analogy of looking "at" and looking "along" may inform on-going discussions in geography education research, such as critiques of school geography for not engaging with different perspectives, and debates surrounding the place of advocacy in the curriculum.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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