Race, Racism and the Geography Curriculum av Professor John (University of Auckland New Zealand) Morgan, David (IOE UCL¿s Faculty of Education and Soc

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Changes in the nature of knowledge production, plus rapid social and cultural change, have meant that the ¿curriculum question¿ ¿ what is to be taught, and by extension, ¿whose knowledge¿ ¿ has been hotly contested. The question of what to teach has become more and more controversial. This book asks: what is an appropriate curriculum response to the acute, renewed interest in issues of race and racism? How does a school subject like geography respond? The struggle over the school curriculum has frequently been portrayed as being between educational ¿traditionalists¿ and ¿progressives¿. This book suggests a way out of this impasse. Drawing upon and extending insights from ¿social realism¿, it explores what a Future 3 geography curriculum might look like - one that recognizes the importance of the academic discipline as a source of curriculum-making but at the same time avoids geographical knowledge becoming set in stone. The book focuses very sharply on issues of race and racism, enabli