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GeogPod is the Geographical Association’s podcast. The views and opinions expressed in the GeogPod discussions are those of the interviewees and are not necessarily those held by the Geographical Association.
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Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
In this episode John spoke to GIS advocate and enthusiast Joseph Kerski. They discussed what GIS is, explored terms such as 'geospatial thinking' and 'the geographic perspective', as well as detailing a host of free GIS tools teachers can use in their lessons today.
Joseph Kerski is a geographer with a focus on the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in education. Joseph gave a TED Talk on ‘The Whys of Where’. He holds 3 degrees in geography and has served as geographer in 4 sectors of society, including government (21 years at NOAA, US Census Bureau, USGS), academia (Penn State, Sinte Gleska University, University of Denver, others), private industry (as Education Manager for Esri for 14 years), and non-profit organisations (as President of the National Council for Geographic Education, and others). Find out more about Joseph's work on his website.
Many thanks to Pearson for sponsoring season 4 of GeogPod.
Resources mentioned in the podcast:
Joseph's 'Our Earth' video channel.
Joseph's 'Thinking Spatially' podcast.
ArcGIS Online, 2D maps and 3D scene viewer and analytical tools.
Essays on spatial data, data quality, ethics, societal issues.
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Kate Stockings is head of geography at a London school as well as being an active blogger and sharer of ideas on Twitter. Kate joined John on the pod to discuss geographical literacy - teaching students how to speak and write like a geographer.
Series 3 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Oxford University Press.
Speaking like a geographer
An update on speaking like a geographer
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Mark Maslin is a professor of climatology at University College London
Mark and John discussed dealing with climate change deniers, how climate change relates to human evolution and migration, and reasons for optimism in the fight against the climate crisis.
Mark's new book, How To Save Our Planet: The Facts is available to preorder now. Read Mark's article for The Conversation, 'The five corrupt pillars of climate change denial' as well as his interview with his own daughter about why she was striking for the climate.
Series 3 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Oxford University Press.
Thursday Nov 26, 2020
Thursday Nov 26, 2020
This week, John had a far-reaching discussion with Dr Patricia Noxolo, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Birmingham University.
John and Patricia covered a lot of ground in the pod, talking about Patricia's work on dance and laughter in post-colonial Caribbean spaces as well as her role on the RGS-IBG's Race, Culture and Equality Working Group. They finished up by tackling the question, 'what is Black British geography?'
Series 3 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Oxford University Press.
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
In this week's episode, John spoke to Tom Highnett, a geography teacher now Assistant Principal and Director of Post-16 at a South Yorkshire school.
Tom spoke about the challenges of senior leadership, curriculum planning, progression as well as some thornier issues such as future of GCSEs, how to teach divisive topical issues and, of course, Covid-19.
Series 3 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Oxford University Press.
Some links mentioned in the episode:
A link to Tom's (work in progress) 7 year curriculum here.
A link to the Team Geography blog.
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
In this episode John was joined by Dr Agatha Herman, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University, specialising in the geography of ethics and justice. Agatha talked about her work in South Africa, empowerment, wine, food security and Fairtrade.
Agatha is the author of Practising Empowerment in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Wine, Ethics and Development.
Series 3 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Oxford University Press.
Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Thursday Nov 05, 2020
This week, John spoke to Tony Champion, Emeritus Professor of Population Geography at Newcastle University about urbanisation, counter urbanisation, migration trends and demographic change (as well as touching on, inevitably, Brexit and Covid-19).
Series 3 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Oxford University Press.
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
This week, John spoke to Brad Frankel from Flooglebinder about the company's history and his views on sustainable tourism and also to Fearghal O'Nuallain, once dubbed the 'UK's coolest teacher' about his journey to becoming a geography teacher and his new book The Kindness of Strangers.
Links mentioned in the podcast:
The GA Study Tour for Nicaragua
The Non-Human Interest Story: De-Personalising the Migrant - Anita Howarth
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
In this episode John had a very insightful conversation with Hina Robinson, a secondary geography teacher and Tariq Jazeel, Professor of Geography at UCL, about defining and decolonising geography.
Why not check out Hina's excellent blog post on how she teaches the development gap, or download the materials from Tariq's eConference session, "The world is sound: geographies of British-Asian dance music"?
Many thanks to our sponsor, Flooglebinder.
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
This week, John spoke to Simran Jouhal who is head of Geography in a north London school and the founder of the fantastic Geographia blog.
Simran talked about how she ended up becoming a geographer teacher, the challenges of leading a department, and also the issues around diversity within geography.
Simran will also be one of the presenters at the GA's upcoming CPD event 'Heads of geography eConference: Leading a successful department'. More details here.
Many thanks to our sponsor, Flooglebinder.