Webinar: Geographers at the Sustainability Chalk Face – Strategies for Teaching in a Changed World
This is an important time to be a geography teacher. Climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse are the biggest issues of our time, and ones that today’s young people are going to face throughout their lives. Education, wide and fast, is necessary if humans are going to turn the situation around in the coming decade, to enable human survival into the 22nd century. Today’s teenagers are going to be entering the workplace and taking the reins through the biggest changes human civilisation has seen. Will they be ready? And what can today’s geography teachers, with powerful opportunities with the existing curriculum, do to prepare them?

Venue: Online
Time/Date: Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:15-17:30pm

For: Practitioners and researchers engaged in teaching geography, climate and biodiversity
Date: 12 February 2025, 16:15
Venue: Online
Speakers: Dr Kim Polgreen (Honorary Norham Fellow, University of Oxford), Steve Brace (Chief Executive of the Geographical Association), Jane Blane (Geography Teacher and DPhil Student, University of Oxford), Paul Turner (Geography Teacher and Climate Communicator), Dr Aoife Bennett (Research Lecturer in Environmental Social Sciences, University of Oxford), Dr David Mitchell (Associate Professor, University College London), Dr Bill Finnegan (Sustainability Project Lead, University of Oxford), Shelley Monk (Geography Subject Advisor, OCR & Former Geography Teacher), Kerry Sage (Subject Advisor, Cambridge University Press & Assessment)
Organiser contact email address: deanery@education.ox.ac.uk
Host: Oxford Education Deanery (Department of Education, University of Oxford)
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://bit.ly/GeogSust25
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Joseph Bullough