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Research title Making and doing critical geography education: The geographies and geobiographies of the journal Contemporary Issues in Geography and Education . Summary of research Research overview
The Journal Contemporary Issues in Geography and Education was launched on 14th November 1983. Its aims were ambitious: to ‘...broaden areas of debate and to examine current controversies within the discipline, at all levels… to collect and disseminate ideas and materials which help to develop a critical approach to the learning and teaching of geography… [and] to promote an emancipatory geography; it seeks, in other words, to promote the idea that the future is ours to create – or to destroy – and to demonstrate that education bears some responsibility for building a world responsive to human needs, diversity and capabilities’ (Cook I and Gill D 1983a 1:1).
Throughout the eight years of its publishing ‘life’, eight journal volumes and supporting educational resources were created exploring the geographies of themes such as apartheid, racism, multiculturalism, the global economy, war and peace, gender, environmentalism, and anarchism. Each journal was to varying degrees collaboratively created by artists, cultural commentators, geography educators, academic geographers, school students, activists and campaigners.
Despite the resonances of such geographical themes, ideals, and engagements with critical pedagogies and inter-disciplinary performances and practices; the endeavour is rarely acknowledged by Anglo-American geographers. Equally, the journal series is seldom found in written records documenting the making of recent geography education. Head of the Geographical Association of England and Wales, Prof David Lambert and Dr John Morgan have in a recent Geography education book, described the endeavour as being ' .. limited in scope and influence ..' (2005:35).
Such an assertion will be critically examined by excavating the stories (oral and aural geographies and geobiographies); geographical flows, scales of involvements, and connections of people involved in the life of each journal and the lives of the journal series more generally. Investigations will also consider the affective geographies of geographical knowledge making by those who contributed to the making of the publications, and those involved with transferring and (re)making such knowledge by interviewing students and teachers influenced by the publications.
Finally, the way ideas are made and remade in different sites of geographical knowledge making will be considered. By examining the afterlives of the journals, the final part of this study will consider how spaces of engagement have been made and remade, and how performing and embodying such publications (especially Contemporary Issues in Geography and Education) play testament, ignites, and inspire different ways of thinking, doing and making geographical knowledges and geography education.
Research Interests
History and philosophies of geography and geography education.
Historical and cultural geographies.
Transgressive and dissenting geographies.
Geographies of natural philosophy, conservation, and sustainability.
Professional Affiliations
Member of Women and Geography Study Group
Member of Childrens,Youth,and Families Geographies Working Group
Member of Historical Geography Research Group
Member of Space and Sexualities and Queer Geographies Research Group
Committee member of Social and Cultural Geographies Research Group
Member of Citizenship Working Group of Geographical Association
Member of Critical Geography Forum
Co-founder of Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences Radical Geographies Reading Group (rg2) with Kristina Weaver
Expertise of the Researcher
Qualified Secondary School specialist geography teacher, freelance educator, lecturer, researcher and writer. Currently principal geography lecturer and creator of the University Preparatory Certificate in Humanities (UPCH) geography course, Language Centre, UCL. For further details see upch_geography.
Supervisors Professor Chris Philo
Dr Hayden Lorimer
Recent publications | View all publications >> Brooks C, Holdich K, Nagle G, Norcup J, Phillipson O. 2005. Geotext1 Longman/Pearson. London. First in a series of three school textbooks ( Books 2 and 3 published 2006 and 2007) with accompanying teacher and ICT resources for Geography at Key Stage 3 of National Curriculum.
View abstract >> Norcup, J. 2007. Book Review: Young People in Transition. Children's Geographies, Vol 5(4), 489 - 490. doi:10.1080/14733280701631999 >> Norcup, J. 2010 Critical enquiries into the historical and cultural geographies of ID Cards in Pykett, J. (ed), Norcup, J. Veevers, S.J. Hopkins, P. Jackson, P. Griffiths, H. 2010. Designing Identity: exploring citizenship through geography. Geography, v.43 (3), 132 - 142. |
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