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This book provides an international perspective on teaching and learning geography in the primary classroom. It describes the essence of primary school geography and identifies the 'big ideas', thereby offering a synthesis of the international geography curricula and classroom profiles against these big ideas. Each chapter discusses current and new research on a set topic, yet a common thread running between chapters is the assessment relevant to that particular topic. By providing a portrait of the central concepts, the essential skills and necessary inquiry processes of a primary geography education, the book will be of interest to education researchers, classroom teachers and the pre-service teacher, curriculum writers and policy writers.

Teaching Primary Geography: Setting the Foundation

Chapter 1. Defining Geography in the Primary School: Classroom experiences and understandings.- Part A: Interconnections and Understandings.- Chapter 2. The integrated nature of Geography education in German and Australian primary schools.- Chapter 3. Primary Geography for a Sustainable Future.- Chapter 4. Cultural Perspectives in Primary Geography.- Chapter 5. Conceptual change and primary geography.- Chapter 6. Geographical question typologies: Student-generated questions.- Part II: Experiencing and Visualising.- Chapter 7. Inquiry-based practices in primary school Geography.- Chapter 8. Fieldwork in Primary Geography: Australia.- Chapter 9. Spatial thinking in primary geography.- Chapter 10. The role of geography in facilitating learners' digital competence.- Chapter 11. Big ideas and Consequences.