Sydney, Australia
About the writer
I am Alaric Maude, an Australian geography academic. For the last 20 years I have worked in the field of geographical education – helping to develop curriculum, writing a book for primary school teachers, and publishing on geographical concepts, powerful knowledge and sustainability. In 2024 I produced a book on Thinking geographically: A guide to the core concepts for teachers, published by Routledge.
About the blog
The subject matter of geography is the world, and its endless variety of environments, landscapes, peoples, cultures, economies and societies.
But geography is more than a broad body of knowledge of the physical and human geography of this world; it is also a discipline that uses its concepts and ways of thinking to understand this world. These are what make geography ‘geographical’, and a distinctive discipline.
My aim is in these blogs to help teachers to understand the core concepts in geography, and to teach their students to use them to think geographically.
Some of the material in Thinking geographically has been borrowed for these blogs, but the book has further development of the concepts, and examples and illustrations of how they can be used.
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