A geography of hope

Abstract

This article is based on the author's keynote lecture at the Geographical Association's 2013 Conference on ‘Looking to the Future’. It raises crucial questions about the future that learners are currently being prepared for. The author argues that geographers in school and teacher education need to become more knowledgeable about climate change, peak oil and the limits to growth, because such issues promise to create a future very different from today. The importance of each issue is set out with ideas on how that area of futures geography might be approached in the classroom. The article also draws attention to the need for teaching approaches that can help learners face such hazards in a spirit of optimism and hope. Finally, it is argued that schools should now be exploring the nature of a post-carbon geography.

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