Duncan Hawley
Duncan is an experienced teacher and teacher educator in geographical and geoscience education. He is interested in pedagogy and the development of disciplinary thinking applied to school settings.
His career spans classroom teaching in state and independent schools, fieldwork teaching, advisory work, initial teacher training, continuing professional development and in-service training provision and curriculum innovation and development work.
From 2004-2012, Duncan was Senior Lecturer and Secondary PGCE Programme Director at Swansea School of Education (Swansea Metropolitan University) having previously worked at Swansea University. He recently worked on a major international geography education and curriculum leadership project (www.geocapabilities.org). He runs professional development workshops in geography and geoscience education and is a regular contributor to geography education conferences. He is external examiner to a major teacher training course in England.
Duncan is on the Editorial Advisory panel of ‘Geography’ (Geographical Association international journal), and is chair of the Geographical Association Physical Geography Special Interest Group, he sits on Geographical Association Education Group and the Earth Science Education Forum. He was presented the Geographical Association Award for Excellence 2012 and the Award for Excellence in Leading Geography 2018.
Duncan also is active in geological research on the Old Red Sandstone rocks of South Wales and Herefordshire and on the early development of geology and geological mapping. He is Chairperson of the History of Geology Group (HOGG), member of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO) and History of Earth Sciences Society (HESS) .
Address: Brecon, Powys, Wales, U.K.
His career spans classroom teaching in state and independent schools, fieldwork teaching, advisory work, initial teacher training, continuing professional development and in-service training provision and curriculum innovation and development work.
From 2004-2012, Duncan was Senior Lecturer and Secondary PGCE Programme Director at Swansea School of Education (Swansea Metropolitan University) having previously worked at Swansea University. He recently worked on a major international geography education and curriculum leadership project (www.geocapabilities.org). He runs professional development workshops in geography and geoscience education and is a regular contributor to geography education conferences. He is external examiner to a major teacher training course in England.
Duncan is on the Editorial Advisory panel of ‘Geography’ (Geographical Association international journal), and is chair of the Geographical Association Physical Geography Special Interest Group, he sits on Geographical Association Education Group and the Earth Science Education Forum. He was presented the Geographical Association Award for Excellence 2012 and the Award for Excellence in Leading Geography 2018.
Duncan also is active in geological research on the Old Red Sandstone rocks of South Wales and Herefordshire and on the early development of geology and geological mapping. He is Chairperson of the History of Geology Group (HOGG), member of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO) and History of Earth Sciences Society (HESS) .
Address: Brecon, Powys, Wales, U.K.
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2. A simplified form of the RHS database containing information and photographs from 4500 river sites in England and Wales was used to provide an attractive classroom resource, relevant to the national teaching curriculum for 9–14 year olds. This enables teachers and pupils to explore rivers in their locality and further afield, and in so doing help them understand how river processes, features and wildlife are linked.
3. Copies of the CD-ROM were distributed free of charge to all primary and secondary schools in England and Wales. Questionnaire returns and other responses show that where it has been used Riverside Explorer has proved popular.
4. In classroom teaching the CD-ROM is mostly used in a structured way for learning about the key features of a river basin, and to chart downstream changes along the course of a river. It is also used to investigate the habitat requirements of river wildlife, and to help pupils learn how to observe features in their local river and make comparisons with those elsewhere.
5. The database and the example case-studies are currently under-used by teachers. This may in part be because teachers are not yet confident enough to develop new learning activities using the CD-ROM, but more generally because of time constraints imposed by heavy teaching workloads.
6. To encourage greater use of the analytical and diagnostic elements of Riverside Explorer, teachers need more guidance to help their pupils discover ways in which rivers can be managed more sustainably and how this fits into the new National Curriculum for schools.