Research

This section identifies current research in the area of geography education.

A Study into the Teaching of Geography in Years 3 - 10 (http://www.dest.gov.au) - Reports on the national study into school geography commissioned by the Australian Government in June 2007. It contributes to the ongoing debate about geography teaching by exploring what is and isn't taught across the country and offers a sample curriculum for further discussion.

Forum - Engaging Lessons: Classrooms as Sites of Engagement in Activist Critical Geography (http://www.ssn.flinders.edu.au/geog/staff/iains/Activist%20education.pdf) - By Iain Hay, Professor of Geography, Flinders University, introduces a special collection on classrooms as sites of engagement in activist critical geography and discusses three ways in which classrooms might be understood as such sites.