Thesis
Geography teachers’ subject knowledge: an ethnographic study of three secondary school geography departments
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This thesis explores geography teachers’ subject knowledge, contributing a detailed empirical study to the geography education research knowledge debate. School geography has been criticised for holding an out-dated, objectivist view of knowledge, which is widely attributed to its disconnection from academic geography.
Conceptualising school geography using Bernstein’s (2000) pedagogic device, this thesis applies a distinction between the ORF (official recontextualising field) and t...
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Funding
Economic & Social Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Deposit date:
- 2019-05-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Puttick, S
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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