Personal Geographies

We are using the ideas from Margaret Roberts’ book “Learning through Enquiry”

Chapter 13 of Margaret’s book is called PERSONAL GEOGRAPHIES, and fits perfectly with the idea of MY PLACE on the Pilot GCSE

The chapter starts with the sentence

“We all know the world from what we learn directly through our experiences and from what we learn indirectly e.g. from other people, the media and through formal education.”

At KS3, Doreen Massey (who I mentioned in an earlier posting), set a challenge for an enquiry.

“It would be a fascinating exercise to try to map even just a few elements of the complex of cultural influences and the different kinds of social relations and social power which they involve and express.”

It’s also worth looking at different uses of the ‘streetscape’: young people and adults would use this differently but neither really had control.

We will be using a personal experience question sheet adapted from Margaret Robert’s book and adapted for King’s Lynn.

She also provides a really useful diagram on p. 170 of the book which is Goodey's Model (not Jade I presume) of sources of environmental information.

We will use this to do some affective mapping of the town.

More on this later...

MY LOCAL AREA SHEET

Adapted from Margaret Roberts “Personal Geographies”

1. Choose 5 of the places that you have visited in King’s Lynn, write the names of the places and give the reasons why you have visited them.

	Place	Why I have visited it
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2. Of the places you visited above, which is your favourite place and why ?

3. Of the places you visited above, which is your least favourite place and why ?

4. Make a list of some of the places in King’s Lynn you have never visited.

5. Choose 5 of the places that you have never visited, and in the table below write the names of the places and how you heard of them, and what you have heard about them.

	Place	How I have heard about this place & what I have heard about it.
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We will then move on to the idea of MENTAL MAPS of King's Lynn.

I also need to have what you think of as YOUR PLACE on a piece of paper by the end of today. Thanks