Understanding and Teaching Primary Geography

About Simon J CatlingTessa Willy

Simon Catling is Assistant Dean of the Westminster Institute of Education at Oxford Brookes University. He spent many years as a classroom teacher in primary schools in London before moving into teacher education where he has worked with primary trainee teachers as geography tutor. His recent research has been in such areas as childrens understanding of geography the state of primary geography and the provision of geography in primary teacher training courses. He has run many primary geography workshops and extended geography in-service courses. He has written widely on geography in primary education including regularly in Primary Geographer. He is author of Placing Places and the Mapstart series Tessa Willy has been Associate Professor School Director of Teacher Education at Kingston University UK since early 2018. She spent the first years of her career as both a primary school teacher in a variety of different settings across the UK and a secondary-school geography teacher in the UK as well as in Malawi. Moving into higher education she worked as senior lecturer in primary geography at the University of Roehampton UK where she developed an outdoor environmental area with colleagues and students that has been used as a model in initial teacher education and continuing professional development for teachers. Tessas areas of particular interest are in issues around the ethics of geography notably climate change sustainability social justice and global citizenship. Tessa is been a member of the Editorial Board of the Geographical Associations journal Primary Geography and has edited several issues