Book 1

Human Geography

by Charles Rawding

Published 30 November 2010
By introducing new approaches to geography, Contemporary Approaches to Geography Volume 1: Human Geography ensures that geography can be understood in the context of a modern society. This series reinforces the importance of developing personal geographies and investigating links between themes. The Contemporary Approaches to Geography series is designed to: take the best new geographical thinking from higher education and bring it to secondary classrooms, thereby reinvigorating content and approach; emphasise the links in geographical thinking between the three titles, presenting a holistic view; make links between geography and students' lives, thereby ensuring the subject is interesting and engaging; allow students to use a higher level of thinking to create concepts and strategies to address complex, uncertain and changing agendas - the stuff of real life! develop more independent learning approaches among students; encourage brave and experimental teaching strategies that aid teacher progression and again strengthen student engagement.

Book 3

By introducing new approaches to geography, Contemporary Approaches to Geography Volume 3: Environmental Geography ensures that geography can be understood in the context of a modern society. This series reinforces the importance of developing personal geographies and investigating links between themes. The Contemporary Approaches to Geography series is designed to: take the best new geographical thinking from higher education and bring it to secondary classrooms, thereby reinvigorating content and approach; emphasise the links in geographical thinking between the three titles, presenting a holistic view; make links between geography and students' lives, thereby ensuring the subject is interesting and engaging; allow students to use a higher level of thinking to create concepts and strategies to address complex, uncertain and changing agendas - the stuff of real life! develop more independent learning approaches among students; encourage brave and experimental teaching strategies that aid teacher progression and again strengthen student engagement.