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The Geographical Association is a Sheffield,United Kingdom-based organisation that aims to further the teaching of geography and to communicate the value of learning geography for all. Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the city in England. ...
It has nearly 10,000 members including teachers in primary and secondary schools as well as further education, academic geographers and teacher educators and trainers. In education, teachers are those who teach students or pupils, often a course of study or a practical skill, including learning and thinking skills. ...
Primary or elementary education is the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ...
Secondary school may refer to Secondary school in the United Kingdom, is the general term for the schools for children between the ages of eleven and eighteen in most areas (a few areas have schools for 13-18 year olds instead, and these are called upper schools). ...
Further education is education in addition to that received at secondary school. ...
Origins The Geographical Association was formed by five interested educationalists, including Halford John Mackinder, in 1893 and is wholly independent of state aid. Jump to: navigation, search Halford John Mackinder Sir Halford John Mackinder PC (February 15, 1861 - March 6, 1947), was an English geographer and geopolitician. ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Present day A small professional staff and officers run the GA in conjunction with its members in local groups, who are generally educationalists.
The original purpose of the GA remains its core business: sharing ideas and learning from each other. In the beginning, a group of teachers wanted to get together and exchange lantern slides and ideas on how such technology could support teaching. Today, new technology allows the GA to make a range of material including, e.g. teaching and learning resources, available to a wider audience. This page is about the archaic movie projector, for the US FBIs keystroke logger see Magic Lantern software The magic lantern or Laterna Magica was the ancestor of the modern slide projector. ...
The GA is consciously taking steps to be inclusive and serve the needs of all teachers of geography, whatever the individual's particular enthusiasms. Its purpose is "to seek out, nurture and support excellence in geography teaching and ensure the education service understands the power of geography to serve educational goals. It aims to achieve this through a range of activities, details of which can be found here."
See also The Royal Geographical Society is a learned society, founded in 1830 with the name Geographical Society of London for the advancement of geographical science, under the patronage of King William IV. It absorbed the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa (founded by Joseph Banks in...
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