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In April 2019, over 80 geographers, educationists and teachers assembled in London to take part in a 2 day IGU-CGE conference entitled ‘Recontextualising Geography’. Invited speakers were asked to present on one of the most challenging issues for geography teachers and educators, how geography’s ‘big ideas’ such as space, place, interconnection and scale can be effectively recontextualised in school education. This, conference followed on from the 2015 symposium where the geography education got together to consider ‘The Power of Geographical Thinking’. Reflecting on the rationale behind the shift to the 2019 ‘Recontextualising Geography’ theme, David Lambert commented:
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Fargher, M., Mitchell, D., Till, E. (2021). Introduction. In: Fargher, M., Mitchell, D., Till, E. (eds) Recontextualising Geography in Education. International Perspectives on Geographical Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73722-1_1
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