Enabling equitable cultures: pedagogy

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Enabling equitable cultures: pedagogy

Academic researchers Equity, diversity and inclusion

This page contains a collection of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) resources with relevance to pedagogy in HE geography. These resources were collated as part of the Enabling equitable cultures of knowledge and practice in physical geography and environmental sciences , funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

This page is dynamic; if you know of other relevant resources or wish to submit your own case study, we鈥檇 like to hear from you at rhed@rgs.org

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Selected readings

Alderman, D., Narro Perez, R., Eaves, L.E., Klein, P. and Mu帽oz, S. (2019). Reflections on operationalizing an anti-racism pedagogy: teaching as regional storytelling. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, September, pp. 1-15. .
Barker, A. J., and Pickerill, J. (2023). Geographies of collective responsibility: decolonising universities through place-based praxis. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, pp. 1-22. .
Carter, J., and Hollinsworth, D. (2017). Teaching Indigenous geography in a neo-colonial world. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 41(2), pp. 182-197. .
Chatterton, P. (2008). Using geography to teach freedom and defiance: Lessons in social change from 鈥榓utonomous geographies鈥�. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 32(3), pp. 419-440. .
Daigle, M., and Sundberg, J. (2017). From where we stand: Unsettling geographical knowledges in the classroom. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(3), pp. 338-341. .
Dwyer, O. J. (1999). Teaching about race and racism in geography: Classroom and curriculum perspectives. Journal of Geography, 98, pp. 176-179. .
Eichhorn, M. P., Baker, K., and Griffiths, M. (2020) Steps towards decolonising biogeography.聽Frontiers of Biogeography, 12(1). .
Esson, J. and Last, A. (2020). Anti鈥恟acist learning and teaching in British geography. Area, 52, pp. 668-677. .
Greene, S., Ashley, K., Dunne, E., Edgar, K., Giles, S., and Hanson, E. (2020). Toilet stops in the field: An educational primer and recommended best practices for field-based teaching. EarthArXiv, preprint. .
Hammersley, H., Bilous, R., James, S., Trau, A. and Suchet-Pearson, S. (2014). Challenging ideals of reciprocity in undergraduate teaching: The unexpected benefits of unpredictable cross-cultural fieldwork. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 38(2), pp. 208-218. .
Heyman, R. (2000). Research, pedagogy, and instrumental geography. Antipode, 32(3), pp. 292-307. .
Hinton, M., and Ono鈥怗eorge, M. (2020). Teaching a history of 鈥渞ace鈥� and anti鈥恟acist action in an academic classroom. Area, 52, pp. 716-721. .
Jackson, P. (1989). Challenging racism through geography teaching. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 13, pp. 5-14. .
Kinkaid, E., and Fritzsche, L. (2022). The stories we tell: Challenging exclusionary histories of geography in US graduate curriculum. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(8), 2469-2485. .
Laing, A.F. (2021). Decolonising pedagogies in undergraduate geography: student perspectives on a Decolonial Movements module. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 45:1, 1-19, DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2020.1815180. .
Nursey-Bray, M. (2019). Uncoupling binaries, unsettling narratives and enriching pedagogical practice: Lessons from a trial to indigenize geography curricula at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 43(3), pp. 323-342. .
Rose, G. (1990). Resources for teaching gender and geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 14, 2, pp. 157-162. .
Radcliffe, S. A. (2022). Decolonizing Geography: An Introduction. Bristol: Polity Press. .
Reimer, C., Ruder, S. L., Koppes, M., and Sundberg, J. (2023). A Pedagogy of Unbecoming for Geoscience Otherwise. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(7), pp. 1711-1727. .
Thaman, K. H. (2009). Towards Cultural Democracy in Teaching and Learning with specific References to Pacific Island Nations (PINs). International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 3(2), pp. 1-9. .
Wellens, J., Berardi, A., Chalkley, B., Chambers, B., Healey, R., Monk, J. and Vender, J. (2006). Teaching geography for social transformation.聽Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 30(1), pp. 117-131. .