Commission on Geographical Education of the International Geographical Union
As part of its ongoing commitment to foster collaboration, innovation, and inclusive professional development, the Commission on Geographical Education of the International Geographical Union is launching the first series of Special Interest Groups (SIGs). The link to join is waiting you at the …
At our recent IGU-CGE Steering Committee meeting, Dr. Clinton van der Merwe (on behalf of the IGU-CGE 2025 Stellenbosch Conference Organising Committee) shared a preview of the global visitor map for the upcoming IGU-CGE 2025 Conference. The map tells an inspiring story—visitors from South Africa, …
IGU – CGE Conference: Stellenbosch, South Africa, 28 – 31 October 2025
3rd and LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Theme: Geographical Learning Today for Tomorrow
We invite geography educators to submit abstracts of an academic paper or poster presentation for the 2025 Commission of Geographical Education of the International Geographical Union’s Conference to be held in Stellenbosch at the heart of the Winelands of South Africa. The conference theme, ‘Geographical Learning Today for Tomorrow,’ seeks to foster dialogue and collaboration across diverse geographical contexts, highlighting locally responsive but globally relevant transformative pedagogies, technology integration, and curriculum innovation that address the challenges of our contemporary world from a geographical perspective. We encourage submissions that explore comparative studies, innovative pedagogies, and sustainable practices at all levels of education, including early childhood education, primary, secondary, and tertiary education, as well as teacher education. We invite contributions that may result in transformative geographical and environmental education that help young people, teachers, and teacher educators better understand their roles and responsibilities as citizens of a world characterised by rapid change, risk and vulnerability. Abstracts should be in English, no more than 300 words and clearly outline the proposed presentation’s objectives, methods, and anticipated outcomes. Submissions should be made online on or before the 31st of May 2025 on the conference website at https://igu-cge-stellenbosch.co.za/. Contributors will be informed of the outcome of the peer review process on the 6th of June 2025. This is the LAST call for abstracts.
We are pleased to announce a sponsorship opportunity provided by the Commission on Geography Education, International Geographical Union, for two teachers and three early-career researchers/PhD students to attend our upcoming conference. This sponsorship will cover the conference fees, providing a valuable professional development and …
IGU – CGE Conference: Stellenbosch, South Africa, 28 – 31 October 2025 2nd CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Theme: Geographical Learning Today for Tomorrow We invite geography educators to submit abstracts of an academic paper or poster presentation for the 2025 Commission of Geographical Education …
International Perspectives on Geographical Education
Series Editors: Clare Brooks and Di Wilmot
This Scopus indexed book series is dedicated to international research in geography education, focusing on curriculum, pedagogy and assessment related to geography education across the age range (from KG-higher education). Led by the priorities and criteria set out in the Commission’s Declaration on Geography Education Research, the series plays an important role in making geography education research accessible to the global community. Publications are drawn from across the geography education research community, and also includes publications stemming from specific events supported by the Commission. Individual book author and editors are encouraged to consider how their proposals correspond to the Commission’s ongoing programme of work. Research published represents immediate developments within the international geography education community. The series seeks to support the development of early career researchers in publishing high quality, high impact research accounts. This series is under the editorial supervision of the International Geography Union’s Commission on Geographical Education.
Do you have an idea for a book? Please contact the series editors or the Springer editor, Evelien Bakker (Evelien.bakker@springer.com) for more information.
For more information on the books published in this series, please visit the series homepage (https://www.springer.com/series/15101).
Editors
Professor Clare Brooks is a professor and Fellow of Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge. She is a past Honorary Secretary of the International Geographical Union – Commission for Geography Education and has as a member of the Advisory Steering Group. Before being appointed as a professor at Cambridge, she worked on post-graduate programmes in geography education at the UCL Institute of Education. Her research interests are in teachers’ use of their subject knowledge and how teachers geographical knowledge influences classroom practices.
Emeritus Professor Di Wilmot’s expertise is in curriculum and pedagogy in geography education with a focus on transformative teacher education. She was Dean of the Faculty of Education at Rhodes University, South Africa for ten years before retiring. Di served as a member of Commission’s Steering Committee from 2016 to 2024; since 2024 she is a member of the Advisory Steering Group.
Under the book series, recent book titles include:
2022
Geography Teacher Education and Professionalization
2021
Recontextualising Geography in Education
Geographical Reasoning and Learning: Perspectives on Curriculum and Cartography from South America
2020
2018
Geography Education for Global Understanding
2017
IGU Commission on Geographical Education 2024 Research Symposium: Rethinking praxis for a world of difference in geography education Sponsored by IGU Commission on Geographical Education and International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education University of Galway, Ireland August 22-24, 2024 Call for Applications In the spirit of …
Hermione Xin Miao from the University of Stirling and the Mapping Inspirational Women Project (https://mappinginspirationalwomen.wordpress.com/) is looking for the names of inspirational women in geography. You can enter your nominations here: https://forms.gle/5iWidFTVfmh2GUGz5
The upcoming conferences are
2023 IGU-CGE conference Oxford
The next IGU-CGE conference is planned to be held in Oxford, United Kingdom, from July 5-7, 2023
The call for papers is open until Monday, February 20, 2023
More information can be found here. https://www.gereco.org/2023-igu-cge-conference/
2024 Dublin IGU Congress
The next IGU Congress is planned to be held in Dublin, Ireland, from August 24-30, 2024.
The first circular can be found here:
The call for sessions is open until September 9, 2023 and the call for abstracts until January 24, 2024.
Here are three newsletters sent out in 2022. Want to see them as soon as they come out? Subscribe to our mailing list and get them directly to your email inbox! IGU-CGE Newsletter 5 (April 2022) IGU-CGE Newsletter 6 (August 2022) IGU-CGE Newsletter 7 (December 2022)
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