Teaching Secondary Geography as if the Planet Matters

Over the last ten years that I have been involved in geography teacher education I have become increasingly aware of a lack of willingness amongst student teachers to engage in the continued study of geography or of geographies at the teaching practice stage. Often new student teachers are more focused, unsurprisingly, on the practice of teaching because this is what worries them. Therefore we currently have an emphasis on pedagogy in terms of focusing on the processes of learning and teaching in the classroom and a ‘fading’ of the need to continue to engage in geographical concepts.