The Life Geographic: A somewhat self-absorbed personal and professional development blog of an ex-Geography high-school teacher…
My first RGS-IBG Annual International Conference took me from Fenland weather heritage and flood resilience to cyborgs, climate humour and the geographies of outer space, while raising new questions about inequality, knowledge and what it means to create more just places.
An article was written for the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) "Ideas From Teachers" blog. Student leadership and youth empowerment has always been a core component of my approach to teaching, and I learned to recognise and move from ‘tokenism’ leadership towards ‘partnership’. Here’s my experience, which may give you some encouragement and ideas to hand over the reins yourself.