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Geography textbooks, pedagogy and disciplinary traditions
Author(s) -
Sidaway James D.,
Hall Tim
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12397
Subject(s) - discipline , aotearoa , context (archaeology) , sociology , critical geography , argument (complex analysis) , human geography , historical geography , social science , geography , pedagogy , gender studies , archaeology , chemistry , biochemistry
We consider Geography textbooks in the context of discussions of canonicity, disciplinary histories and genre. Our paper, an introduction to the set that follows, presents an argument about the importance of textbooks and the shifting relationship of Geography at different levels (school and university) to disciplinary history in the context of changes in the modes of publication. The papers that follow draw on material from a range of anglophone textbooks with reflections from Aotearoa/New Zealand, the UK , the USA and Singapore.