Should we only teach about real people and real places?

Autor:	Puttick, S
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0507 social and economic geography Media studies 050301 education Leat 050703 geography 0503 education Earth-Surface Processes
Zdroj:	Geography. 102:26-32
ISSN:	2043-6564 0016-7487
Popis:	This article offers a discussion of teaching about real people and places. Examples of not-real people and places in the influential publication 'Thinking Through Geography' (Leat, 2001) are critically discussed, and an argument is made against the teaching of geography through not-real people and places. The examples from 'Thinking Through Geography' are suggested to: be necessarily limited in a way that sources about real people and places are not; include a problematic hidden curriculum; and offer a type of representation that positions imaginary places as if they were real. What 'the real' means is explored, and it is argued that, while teaching about not-real people and places is potentially highly problematic, simply teaching about 'the real' is impossible. A notion of 'useful fictions' is offered, and suggestions are made for further engagement with representation and abstraction in school geography.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::c40c5c7d2ed513158eeb17927becbb1b https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2017.12094006 Zobrazit plný text záznamu