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Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks
Author(s) -
Morgan John
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8330.00334
Subject(s) - ideology , context (archaeology) , period (music) , sociology , reproduction , resource (disambiguation) , social science , social geography , human geography , gender studies , geography , political science , politics , aesthetics , ecology , archaeology , law , art , computer network , computer science , biology
This essay considers the “imagined geographies” of Britain found in school geography textbooks in the postwar period. The first part of the essay considers the role that school geography plays in processes of social reproduction. It suggests that textbooks represent an important resource through which meanings are negotiated in the everyday lives of teachers and students. The second part of the essay discusses some of the specific “national environmental ideologies” found in geographies of Britain. The essay concludes with a discussion of the wider context in which geographies of Britain are taught in schools.