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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 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.
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
This week, John spoke to Dr Fiona Ferbrache, Lecturer in Geography at University of Oxford about her work in citizenship, migration and Brexit.
Many thanks to our sponsor, Flooglebinder.
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
This week, John spoke to Dr Bethan Davies, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography at Royal Hollaway University of London about her work in glaciation and climate change.
You can visit Bethan's brilliant Antarctic Glaciers website here. You may also be interested in taking a look at the BritIce Glacial Map which was mentioned in the pod.
Many thanks to our sponsor, Flooglebinder.
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Welcome to Series 2 of GeogPod! This week, John spoke to Stephen Legg, Professor of Historical Geography at Nottingham University. Stephen discussed his work on globalisation, internationalism and colonial India.
Many thanks to our sponsor, Flooglebinder.
Some links to websites mentioned in the podcast.
Friday Jun 12, 2020
Friday Jun 12, 2020
This week, John spoke to Chris King, Emeritus Professer of Earth Science Education at Keele University, plate tectonics, geology, and generally his life and career in education.
Take a look at the Earth Learning Idea website for a huge archive of earth-related teaching ideas and activities.
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Mary Gearey is a human geographer and Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography at Brighton University. In this episode, John asks Mary about her new book, "English Wetlands: Spaces of Nature, Culture, Imagination", as well as how Covid-19 might impact our attitudes to outdoor spaces among other things.
John and Mary also mentioned the website WetlandLIFE which you can find here.
Thursday May 14, 2020
Thursday May 14, 2020
Another episode where we look back at one of the sessions from this year's GA eConference. This time we bring you the audio from Katy Salter's session from the GCSE pathway which focused on using assessment data and evidence-based strategies to boost attainment in key stage 4.
You can download the PowerPoint from Katy's session here in case you want to follow along (but it will still make perfect sense without the PowerPoint).
Thursday May 07, 2020
Thursday May 07, 2020
This special episode of GeogPod takes the audio from a panel discussion held over Zoom during the GA's recent eConference. GA President Gill Miller was the chair as the four panelists discussed how to continue geography education during the current challenging circumstances.
For support in teaching geography in the home, why not check out the GA's new 'Geography from home' web section?