Everything about Geographical Association totally explained
The Geographical Association is a
Sheffield,
United Kingdom-based organisation that aims to further the teaching of
geography and to communicate the value of learning geography for all.
It has nearly 10,000 members including
teachers in
primary and
secondary schools as well as
further education, academic geographers and teacher educators and trainers.
The current Chief Executive of the Geographical Association is Professor David Lambert.
Origins
The Geographical Association was formed by five interested educationalists, including
Halford John Mackinder, in
1893 and is wholly independent of state aid.
Present day
A small professional staff and officers run the GA in conjunction with its members in local groups, who are generally educationalists.
The original purpose of the GA remains its core business: sharing ideas and learning from each other. In the beginning, a group of teachers wanted to get together and exchange
lantern slides and ideas on how such technology could support teaching. Today, new technology allows the GA to make a range of material including, for example teaching and learning resources, available to a wider audience.
The GA is consciously taking steps to be inclusive and serve the needs of all teachers of geography, whatever the individual's particular enthusiasms. Its purpose is
"to seek out, nurture and support excellence in geography teaching and ensure the education service understands the power of geography to serve educational goals. It aims to achieve this through a range of activities, details of which can be found here."
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