Teaching the global dimension past and present
We begin this unit by examining some examples of resources and activities used for teaching over the last 200 years. The activity on the right asks you to examine two extracts from books used for the teaching of geography before 1960. Look at the activity now.
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Activity
Click on the Text icon and read the first extract, 'Geography' (Hartley, 1816, p. 28, quoted in Graves, 2001, p. 25), which contains information and questions from an early nineteenth-century geography textbook. Then look at the second extract, 'Peace is indivisible' (Midgley, 1949, pp. 92-3, quoted in Graves, 2001, p. 101), which focuses on peace and a cartoon from the 1940s.
What view of the world is represented by each of these extracts?
