Wednesday, 19 February 2020

Curriculum Progression

Many GA Presidents have tackled the thorny subject of progression in geography in their work.

This was particularly true of former GA Presidents Richard Daugherty and Eleanor Rawling, who will appear here much later in the year, maybe even in 2021.

ImageA new resource on progression has been produced by John Hopkin, with David Gardner, Alan Kinder, Ruth Totterdell and the GA Assessment and Examinations Special Interest Group.


Free to download by members, and available to purchase for £6.66 by non members from the GA website.

Good to see a quote by former GA President Richard Daugherty on the front cover

The idea of progression is implicit in any discussion of the nature of the learning we hope students will engage in. If we did not hope that our students would, in some sense, progress we would have no foundation on which to construct a curriculum or to embark on the act of teaching’ (Daugherty, 1996).

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