Stephen Pickering

Senior Lecturer in Primary Education

Institute of Education

Contact Details

email: s.pickering@worc.ac.uk

tel: 01905 542080


Qualifications
MA in Education (Distinction)
PGCert in Higher Education
PGCE Geography with English subsidiary
BA (Hons) 2:1 Geography

Teaching & Research

Teaching Interests

Geography
Professional Studies
The global dimension
Global citizenship
Valuing place
Gifted and Talented
Teaching through stories
Module leader for PITE2001 awarded the Student Recognition Award for Promoting Learning 2009/2010

Research Interests

Climate Change
Developing World Issues and how they are tackled in the classroom
Valuing Places – how a sense of place is key to a child’s learning and development

Professional Bodies

Worcestershire County Council
Geographical Association
Core member of TIDE (Teachers in Development Education)

Publications

A Message To Johannesburg, TIDE publications 2002

Lessons in Sustainability, TIDE publications 2003

Food and Farming, TIDE publications 2004

Journal articles

It’s Boring Here – Teaching Geography Vol. 30 No 1 2005Learning in Partnership – Primary Geographer No 62 2007

What do children really learn? A discussion to investigate the effect that school partnerships have on children's understanding, sense of values and perceptions of a distant place GTIP Geog Ed Vol 2. Issue 1 (2008)

Philosophically gifted? – Primary Geographer No 64 2007Mama Panya’s Pancakes – Primary Geographer No 71 2010

Mess, Mess, Glorious Mess. Messines and the pedagogy of deeper thinking (Pickering and Catling) Primary Geographer 2010.

Work on Gifted and Talented children from areas of social and economic deprivation highlighted in a main article in the TES Jan 21st 2011. “University? Like school only worse”

External Responsibilities

Coordinates & manages many regional based CPD and curriculum development projects
Regional Coordinator for Valuing Places project
Worcestershire Primary Geography Champion
Consultant for the Geographical Association
Editorial board of Primary Geographer – currently editor on a rotating programme
Advisory Board member of the National ESRC funded project (University of Exeter) Global Partnerships as Sites for Mutual Learning: Teachers’ Professional Development Through Study Visit Courses