On 12th March 2026 , my book The Power of Geographical Enquiry will be published. It’s been a journey — and one I’m genuinely passionate about. I’ve tried to blend the pragmatic with the theoretical, rooted in two decades of classroom practice. The book is available for pre-order (with a saving). One of the key arguments running through it is this: much of the geographical knowledge we teach in schools will be out of date by the time a young person moves from their first Year 7 lesson to their GCSE or A level. The world changes. New data emerges. Examples that once worked become obsolete. But what doesn’t go out of date is how we do geography. That is not to say that substansive knowledge isn't important, indeed all teaching should be rooted in contextualised geography (local or linked to the local wherever possible). So yes, we have the ‘what’ of geography — the substantive content organised around concepts. But we also have the procedural aspect: how we question, analyse,...
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