Geography

Educational Visits, Geography, Lectures, presentations, and workshops

Rethinking the Power of Geographic Frameworks

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Lecture+ delivered by Daryl Sinclair at the GA conference 2026 in Sheffield. This lecture+ explores the critical need to revisit how frameworks are used in geography teaching, emphasizing their power to limit student thinking and perpetuate stereotypes. Daryl Sinclair shares an in-depth exploration of what frameworks are as a cognitive tool in education, providing real life examples of where our application of frameworks has impacted the futures of people ranging from students during 2020, through to LATAM countries forced to follow Rostow's five stages of development. Daryl concludes with practical strategies based in anti-racist pedagogies to rethink our engagement with frameworks and ensure that they support inclusive, complex, and hopeful futures.

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DEIJ Resources, Geography, Lectures, presentations, and workshops

Geographies of Hope: Thinking Clearly About the World

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Too often we hold students back from ambitious texts in KS3 because we underestimate them or lack the scaffolding to support success. That’s why I’ve contributed to Myatt & Co’s KS3: The Ambitious Years. The free booklets below offer a full six‑lesson sequence for Grade 7 students exploring Factfulness, built around the driving question: How does the critical use of data help us form realistic, hopeful ideas about the future? Students analyse images, maps, graphs, and video, building toward extended writing — and maybe even finishing the book. A companion teacher guide unpacks the pedagogy and common misconceptions so you’re supported throughout.

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DEIJ Resources, Geography, Tips and advice

How to Stop Averages from Colonising our Classrooms

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As the world of education begins to slowly engage with pedagogies that are more inclusive, decolonised, and anti-racist, a remaining point of failure across the board is the use of data. Our use of simple statistics whether introducing a country, using real-world numbers such as average salary for applied mathematics or explaining a biological phenomenon, can build harmful generalisations within our classrooms. In order to Decolonise our pedagogies and teach inclusively, we must consider our use of statistics and our application of mathematics.

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