Centre for Active Learning (CeAL)

Geography Discipline Network (GDN)

Working in association with the Centre for Active Learning in Geography, Environment and Related Disciplines (CeAL) and the Higher Education Academy's GEES Subject Centre

Director: Professor Mick Healey

The Geography Discipline Network (GDN) was initially funded by the Employment Department / DfEE under its EHE Discipline Networks programme. The GDN was established at Nene College (now University College Northampton) and ran for two successive years from 1994/5. The base for the GDN moved to the Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education (now the University of Gloucestershire) in September 1996 to start a 33 month project to look at 'Dissemination of Good Teaching, Learning and Assessment Practices in Geography'. This project was funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England's (HEFCE) 'Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning' initiative. Since then the GDN has undertaken several other projects including ones on Key Skills in Geography, Supporting Disabled Students on Fieldwork, and Developing an Inclusive Curriculum.

These web pages are in place of the previous, now archived, GDN site.

Archived GDN Discussion Papers are still available to view:

• Learning Cycles and Learning Styles
• Developing the Scholarship of Teaching Geography in Higher Education
• International Perspectives on Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education

For more information on the Geography Discipline Network (GDN) please contact:

Professor Mick Healey, GDN Director, Tel: +44 (0)1242 714678, E-mail mhealey@glos.ac.uk
Claire Hanson, GDN Web Manager, Tel: +44 (0)1242 714682, E-mail chanson@glos.ac.uk

Centre for Active Learning
University of Gloucestershire
Francis Close Hall Campus
Swindon Road
Cheltenham
GL50 4AZ
United Kingdom

October 2007