Introduction

Abstract

Teaching Geography in Secondary Schools forms part of a series of readers designed to accompany the new Open University flexible PGCE course. It, and its partner book, Aspects of Teaching Secondary Geography: Perspectives on practice, will be the set books on the secondary geography course, as will the two generic readers Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum in Secondary Schools and Aspects of Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools, and one further recent publication - Learning to Teach Geography in the Secondary School by David Lambert and David Balderstone. Together this set of books will provide the core academic text-based materials for the new geography course. They will be fully integrated with the web-based study modules and other web-based resources, and will also be integrated into the blocks of school experience undertaken by the students. School-based activities will use the texts as a platform, and the electronic conferencing environment in which the students will work will draw heavily on the texts as a resource.