Geography Through Enquiry: Approaches To Teaching And Learning In The Secondary School

Abstract

Margaret Roberts’ new book takes her exploration of aspects of enquiry learning throughgeography education significantly beyond her initial offering, Learning Through Enquiry.Writing in an accessible and readable style, she has succeeded in presenting acomprehensive commentary on the role and function of enquiry learning in geography –with particular reference to those teachers involved in providing geography education for11 to 18 year old students. Although the intended audience of mainstream geographyteachers is clear, there is much here for the beginning teacher in initial teacher education orthe practitioner-researcher working towards a higher degree in education. Indeed, mindfulof the axiom that ‘teaching is essentially a research-based profession’ Roberts helpfullyoffers one or two ‘Suggestions for research’ (with selected references) at the end of each ofher 21 chapters.