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Come reimagine with us! “Rural Reimagined: A Grand Challenge for Appalachia” 2025 Appalachian Studies Association Conference Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee March 20-22, 2025 Photographs by Sabrina Greene-Rusk. One-fourth of the counties that comprise Appalachia are classified as rural—neither part of nor adjacent to a metropolitan area. The 48th annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference will explore the theme “Rural Reimagined” by celebrating the creative uses of technology, science, and the arts with the greatest potential to transform life in and proximate to the region’s rural communities. #appstudies2025 #Ruralreimagined #appalachianstudies #appalachia #appalachian #appstudies #asa #Asainaction 

"The center’s main purpose is to explore the ways that education policy and school management are both shaped by and shape geography." Please welcome our newest center Center for Geography of Education Policy. Led by Bryan Mann, associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, the center was born from Mann's own research exploring school district enrollment patterns, the relationship between space and educational inequality, and segregation in schools. https://lnkd.in/gBx2XNx6

‘We aim to ensure that all young people, regardless of their background, have access to high-quality geography resources’.’ In 2024, the GA and Oak National Academy proudly launched a free, fully resourced, and adaptable primary geography curriculum with over 230 lessons to spark pupils' curiosity about the world. Building on this success, we're thrilled to announce the development of a comprehensive KS3 and KS4 geography curriculum, set to be released in 2025, to further deepen pupils' geographical knowledge and skills. You can read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/em8FSDkN

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The workshop I delivered at the GA conference - Power: A New and Essential Lens for Geography Education - was attended by a room full of people excited by the prospect of progressive change. 🙏🏾After much preparation, constructive feedback, and nerves, I am grateful for the people who supported me, attended the workshop and shared their positive responses. 🌎Simon Oakes said, “Power’s bigger than geography. There’s not a claim that this is geography’s superpower; this is a social sciences humanities thing.” 👀I strongly believe that studying power can help students learn skills to critically engage with the world and understand how to react to and advocate for change. 📺You are welcome to watch and learn from the presentation (fully subtitled) on YouTube. Use the slides and teaching resources to encourage your students to become critical citizen-geographers. 👨🏾🏫As teachers, we can collectively advocate for change through our teaching and our choice of exam boards, all to develop students into inclusive and effective leaders of change. ❓How will you incorporate ‘Power’ in your classroom? https://lnkd.in/eprHKtuU

Sorry to have missed this but really enjoyed listening to the recording! Thanks for sharing. 'Power' should be such a helpful concept in school geography, giving students the sense of agency (and so hope), both in understanding who the gatekeepers and influencer of change are but also in challenging and resisting current power structures and hegemonies and move away from the sense of inevitability about the world that we often see in A level responses. It was so useful to be reminded that we had 'power' specifically as a concept in our 2008/09 Edexcel AS/A2 specifications in the 'Going Global' and 'Superpower Geographies' units but not sure how well understood or embedded they were at that time. As Daryl says I think discussions of power would be particularly well suited to understanding and diversifying the local scale Dynamic Places topics of the current A level spec as well as more explicitly (as least as far as ALCAB influenced DfE Subject content) in Global Systems and Geopolitics topics. We encourage teachers to focus our 'Players' synoptic theme in current A level on 'Power' in relation to influence (linked to the specialist DfE/ALCAB concept of 'inequality') and not just 'stakeholders'

CGEP was born from Mann’s own research on the intersections of geography and educational policy. His work includes exploring school district enrollment patterns, the relationship between space and educational inequality, and segregation in schools. https://lnkd.in/gBx2XNx6

I guess it doesn’t change much, apart from a huge sense of relief and stability (which is not nothing in academia today) but today is the first day of my new job at the Institute of Geography and Territorial Planning at the University of Lisbon, funded (until 2027 at least, and hopefully until 2030) by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) #CEEC. I shall work on #heritage and #migration, still with a #visualmethodology. First day, first ?

It was a privilege to join Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman and Robin Wells at the 63rd ERSA Congress for a roundtable on "Proximity in the New Economic Geography." If you missed it, catch the replay to explore how proximity is reshaping our cities and economies. Watch the replay here: https://lnkd.in/eX4nVh6b #ERSA2024 #HappyProximity #Sustainability