A capabilities approach to higher education: Geocapabilities and implications for geography curricula
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A geographical education offers more than skills, subject knowledge and generic attributes. It also develops a set of discipline-specific capabilities that contribute to a graduate’s future learning and experience, granting them special ways of thinking for lifelong development and for contributing to the welfare of themselves, their community and their world. This paper considers the broader purposes and values of disciplinary teaching in contributing to individual human development. Set in the context of recent debates concerning the role of the university and the neo-liberalisation of higher education this paper explores approaches to developing the geography curriculum in ways that re-assert the educational value of geographical thinking for students. Using international examples of teaching and learning practice in geography, we recognise five geocapabilities: use of the geographical imagination; ethical subject-hood with respect to the impacts of geographical processes; integrative thinking about society–environment relationships; spatial thinking; and the structured exploration of places. A capabilities approach offers a productive and resilient response to the threats of pedagogic frailty and increasingly generic learning in higher education. Finally, a framework to stimulate dialogue about curriculum development and the role of geocapabilities in the higher education curriculum is suggested.
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The capabilities approach has moved into geography curricula in both higher education and secondary school settings and has been described as 'geocapabilities'.
“The capabilities approach has moved into geography curricula in both higher education [24] and secondary school settings [25][26][27] and has been described as 'geocapabilities'.”
From Building Teacher Identity in Environmental and Sustainability Education: The Perspectives of Preservice Secondary School Geography Teachers (2021) · cites this paper as [24]
Higher education geography has an emphasis on spatial thinking and exploration of place, while school geography has a focus on citizenship.
“Higher education, as documented by Walkington et al. [24], has an emphasis on spatial thinking and exploration of place whilst school context (e.g., [27]) has a focus on citizenship.”
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- Authors
- Walkington, H., Dyer, S., Solem, M., Haigh, M., & Waddington, S.
- Affiliations
- Oxford Brookes University (GB)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- American Association of Geographers (US)
- National University of Ireland, Maynooth (IE)
- Corresponding author
- Walkington, Helen
- Venue
- Journal of Geography in Higher Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-09-15
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 7-24
- ISSN
- 0309-8265 (ISSN-L)
- 1466-1845
- OpenAlex
- W2755939347
- Cited by
- 67
- References
- 82
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 28.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- radar.brookes.ac.uk
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Journal of Geography in Higher Education (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion)
- Radar (Oxford Brookes University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Geography Education and Pedagogy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Geography and Education Methods
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
- Keywords
- capability approach, geography curriculum, higher education, geographical thought, human development, role of universities, geographical imagination, spatial thinking, society-environment relationship, curriculum development
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