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SUMMARY:RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute for British Geographers) Annual International Conference will be held at the University of Birmingham and online\, from Tuesday 26 August to Friday 29 August 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Geography Education Research Group will be hosting a number of sessions:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 27 August\n\n\n\n11.10-12.50: Making the Case for Geography in Our Classrooms: Lightning Lessons for Transformative Learning \n\n\n\n\nKenneth Foote\, University of Connecticut\, \n\n\n\nAlan Marvell\, University of Gloucestershire\n\n\n\nSonja Rewhorn\, The Open University\n\n\n\nGavin Heath\, University of KwaZulu-Natal\n\n\n\nHarry West\, UWE\, Bristol\n\n\n\n\n14.40-16.20: Food Education\, Creative Practice and Youth’s Everyday Geographies of Food \n\n\n\n\nSara Brouwer\, Utrecht University\n\n\n\nIrene Marchiani\, Utrecht University\n\n\n\nTine Beneker\, Utrecht university\n\n\n\nAjay Bailey\, Utrecht university\n\n\n\nHarrison Awuh\, Utrecht University\n\n\n\n[Co-sponsored with the Food Geographies Research Group]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday 28 August\n\n\n\n9.00-10.40: What Can We Creatively Learn Here\, That We Can Learn Nowhere Else? \n\n\n\n\nSmriti Safaya\, Stockholm Environment Institute – York\, University of York\n\n\n\nSuzie Eden\, University of York\n\n\n\n\n11.10-12.50: The Future of Fieldwork \n\n\n\n\nJoanna Southworth\, University of Birmingham\n\n\n\nLesley Batty\, University of Birmingham\n\n\n\nSurindar Dhesi\, University of Birmingham\n\n\n\n\n14.40-16.20: Emerging and Innovative Pedagogies in Geography Higher Education \n\n\n\n\nHarry West\, UWE\, Bristol\n\n\n\nAlan Marvell\, University of Gloucestershire\n\n\n\nJennifer Hill\, UWE\, Bristol\n\n\n\n\n16.50-18.30: Creating pathways to leadership in Geography HE (Panel discussion) \n\n\n\n\nSonja Rewhorn\, The Open University\n\n\n\nVicky Johnson\, The Open University\n\n\n\nMatt Finn\, University of Exeter\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday 29 August\n\n\n\n9.00-10.40: 2025 Journal of Geography in Higher Education Annual Lecture – Jennifer Hill\, UWE\, Bristol \n\n\n\nOrganised by:  \n\n\n\n\nDavid Higgitt\, University of Lancaster\n\n\n\nDerek France\, University of Chester\n\n\n\nSonja Rewhorn\, The Open University\n\n\n\n\n11.10-12.50: Writing successfully for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education \n\n\n\n\nDerek France\, University of Chester\n\n\n\nSonja Rewhorn\, The Open University\n\n\n\nAlan Marvell\, University of Gloucestershire\n\n\n\nHarry West\, UWE\, Bristol\n\n\n\nDavid Higgitt\, University of Lancaster\n\n\n\n\n14.40-16.20: Crǝativethnographies (1) Exploring new ways to co-produce young people`s geographies using arts\, fiction and so-much-more-than-that \n\n\n\n\nItta Bauer\, University of Zurich\n\n\n\n[Co-sponsored with the Geographies of Children\, Youth and Families Research Group]\n\n\n\n\n16.50-18.30: Crǝativethnographies (2) Exploring new ways to co-produce young people`s geographies using arts\, fiction and so-much-more-than-that \n\n\n\n\nItta Bauer\, University of Zurich\n\n\n\n[Co-sponsored with the Geographies of Children\, Youth and Families Research Group]
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/rgs-ibg-annual-international-conference-2025/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
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SUMMARY:Making the Case for Geography in Our Classrooms: Lightning Lessons for Transformative Learning (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 \n\n\n\nPanel: \n\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Discussant\, Panel Chair: Kenneth Foote\, University of Connecticut\, \n\n\n\nConvenor\, Discussant: Alan Marvell\, University of Gloucestershire\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Discussant: Sonja Rewhorn\, The Open University\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Discussant: Harry West\, UWE\, Bristol\n\n\n\nDiscussant: Gavin Heath\, University of KwaZulu-Natal\n\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nThis panel discussion will focus on how geography education can address today’s critical challenges\, including climate change and social inequities. We invite participants to share persuasive pedagogical materials\, practices\, and lessons that demonstrate geography’s value in understanding and responding to local\, regional\, national\, and global issues. We are particularly interested in examples that emphasise geography’s role in supporting progressive\, inclusive civic education that prepares students to be active\, participatory\, and empowered citizens. \n\n\n\nThis session will showcase geography’s transformative potential in the classroom\, equipping students to make empathetic and critical spatial decisions regarding community and global issues. Transformative learning emphasises social and environmental justice\, highlights the lived experiences and well-being of underrepresented groups\, and transforms classrooms into welcoming\, inclusive spaces. \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with the International Network for Learning and Teaching in Geography in Higher Education (INLT)\, this panel discussion aligns with similar initiatives from the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and the European Association of Geographers (EUGEO). We aim to share teaching strategies that reflect what Sarah Bednarz describes as “geography’s secret powers to save the world\,” explore “why geography matters\,” as noted by Harm de Blij and Alec Murphy\, and address geography’s “wicked” problems\, as discussed by David Simm\, Alan Marvell\, and Alexia Mellor. \n\n\n\nJoin us for this engaging debate and share your experiences in the classroom. We welcome discussions on classroom ideas\, materials\, or strategies that invigorate geography education and inspire others. This workshop-style panel allows contributors to pitch and discuss ideas at any stage of development.
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/aic2025-geog-in-classrooms/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
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SUMMARY:Food Education\, Creative Practice and Youth’s Everyday Geographies of Food (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 \n\n\n\nPanel: \n\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Panel Chair: Sara Brouwer\, Utrecht University\n\n\n\nConvenor: Irene Marchiani\, Utrecht University\n\n\n\nConvenor: Tine Beneker\, Utrecht university\n\n\n\nConvenor: Ajay Bailey\, Utrecht university\n\n\n\nConvenor: Harrison Awuh\, Utrecht University\n\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nFrom various national educational programmes accompanying the EU’s Fruit and Vegetables Scheme to government-supported programmes such as the Healthy Schools Approach (De Gezonde School) in The Netherlands\, the Italian School & Food Programme (Scuola&Cibo)\, and the ‘Food – a fact of life’ programme in the UK\, the food education landscape is a patchwork. \n\n\n\nWhile different in each country\, these formal food pedagogies – educational ideologies and practices focused on growing\, acquiring\, shopping\, cooking\, eating and disposing of food (Flowers & Swan 2015) – share the common goal of educating young people about healthy and sustainable food choices and skills. Studies in European contexts have mainly measured knowledge retention and uptake of healthy eating habits (Battjes-Fries et al. 2017)\, while geographers in Anglo-Saxon settings have highlighted a scalar politics around how social anxieties about food and diet (cooking skills\, childhood obesity) in educational programmes place responsibility on the individual scale of the young body\, overlooking structural processes such as income and spatial inequalities that shape food access (Jackson 2016). Geographers have\, furthermore\, critiqued food education programmes for reducing food to its nutritional components\, emphasising students’ deficits over capabilities\, and for producing normative moral binaries distinguishing good/bad food\, healthy/unhealthy or good/bad parents and children\, often excluding diverse cultural and socio-economic foodways (Maher et al 2020; Rawlins 2009). \n\n\n\nCreative methods and practice have the potential to bridge the gap between food education and young people’s diverse and everyday geographies of food. This session includes contributions that explore: \n\n\n\n\nHow creativity in formal or informal education can reimagine food education;\n\n\n\nHow participatory methods (e.g. photo elicitation\, arts-based methods\, games such as Serious Play but also gardening\, cooking\, recipes) can help integrate youth’s voices and their geographies of food in food education or to understand the role and responsibilities of teachers\, administrators\, parents;\n\n\n\nHow creative practice (art\, photography\, theatre\, poetry) can challenge the predominant material lens in food education\, shift students from passive to active agents in learning about food or facilitate discussions around the relational and affective nature of food and structural political and economic factors influencing how families relate to food.
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/aic2025-food-education-food-geographies/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
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