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1 / #geoadvent #lovegeography Many geographers lead research into people’s lives, working to improve experiences in communities. This includes children's geographers - with the journal Children's Geographies highlighting essential research in this area: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cchg20/current
2 / So how apt the @geoblogs @the_GA blog is on Prof Simon Catling today. Simon has written extensively on Children’s Geographies in their communities and schools https://tinyurl.com/yc6zulyw (2020) (we've not got Simon on twitter, yet!)
3 / Research into children’s geographies, can be traced the work of Bunge’s and Bordessa in Detroit, investigating how structural forces impacted negatively on children’s use of city spaces and places… #radicalgeography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bunge
4 / Many know Hart's ladder. But his work in the 70s, involved him spending time with children over 18 months. He noted their will to explore, play and interact in their locality, as well as the forces working against this. His book (1979) is here: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/232568424_Children's_Experience_of_Place
5/ 50 years later, children's access to and use of places and spaces are seldom prioritised. But in Ireland @APlayfulCity @CRNINI are helping share research, practice and ideas https://dublin.ie/live/stories/a-playful-city/ #lovegeography
6 / And as Prof Stuart Aitken notes children’s restricted and curtailed geographies indicate wider issues. As he notes: ‘local geographies of children — their political and economic contexts — speak to larger societal problems’ (2018) https://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Faculty/aitken.php
7 / On Friday the gap in recognising children’s geographies in policy will be bought to the @OireachtasNews Education Committee by @DCU Education Disadvantage Chair, Paul Downes. Within our report I argue prioritising children's geographies, it will improve localities for all.
8 / Some great children's geographers to follow are
@krgeography
@peterkraftl
@lholt13
@c_l_walker
@HadfieldHill
@mills_sarah
the @RGS_IBG's @gcyfrg
as well as @ChildrensGeogs
@krgeography
@peterkraftl
@lholt13
@c_l_walker
@HadfieldHill
@mills_sarah
the @RGS_IBG's @gcyfrg
as well as @ChildrensGeogs
