Dr John Morgan

  • Qualifications and position:
    • Reader in Geography Education
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
  • Summary:
    • I am interested in all aspects curriculum development in geography. My research is concerned with the role of critical pedagogy in teaching, social and cultural geography, curriculum theory and teacher development.
  • Teaching:
    • My current teaching is on the MA Geography in Education and Ph.D supervision. I have long experience of teaching on PGCE courses and spent 10 years teaching geography in schools. I coordinate the Learning, Spaces, Places Special Interest Group.
  • Research Projects:
    • I coordinated the Enquiring Minds project which was a collaboration between Microsoft and Futurelab.
  • Professional Activities:
    • I am a member of the Editorial Collective for Geography: an international journal.
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • "The consequences of space for geographical education", Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 2008.
 

Contact details

Contact details

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  • Address:
  • Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Morgan, J. 'Breaking into the Curriculum: ICT and Schooling' In R. Sutherland, S. Robertson and P. John, Improving Learning through ICT. London: Routledge.
  • Morgan, J. (2008) 'Economies of space and the school geography curriculum', The Curriculum Journal 19(4), 326-335.
  • Morgan, J. (2008) 'Contesting Europe: representations of space in English school geography', Globalisation, Societies, Education 6(3), 281-290.
  • Morgan, J. (2008) 'Curriculum Development in 'New times'', Geography 93(1), 17-24.
  • Morgan, J. (2007) 'School geography and the politics of culture', Geography Compass 1/3, 373-388.
  • Morgan, J. and Matthewman, S. (2006) ''Writing the City': Developing interdisciplinarity in teacher education', International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Science 4(1), 135-142.
  • Matthewman, S. and Morgan, J. (2006) 'English and geography: common ground? From Planet Earth to Pigs', Changing English 13(3), 259-72.
  • Morgan, J. and Lambert, D. (2005) Teaching School Subjects: Geography 11-19. London: Routledge.
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  • Morgan, J. (2003) 'Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks', Antipode: a radical journal of geography 35(3), 444-462.