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hermionemiao.bsky.social @hermionemiao.bsky.social · Apr 16

First fire-alarm, then tech issues, but Prof Duan and I managed to catch up with the time. And I was so grateful to find out the person who helped me was the first textbook author I read in 2013, his work opened my mind of #textbook
#GAConf25 #connected #geographies @geographicalassoc.bsky.social

Fire alarm before the presentation (my first presentation at GA, with my postdoc mentor)

Quite an audience showed up and in particular two school geography textbook authors I have been reading: John Hopkin (his textbook was the first foreign geography textbook I read when I was studying a masters program in Shanghai) and David Gardner (who is the main author of the textbook I analyse from 2025).

Prof Duan - chief editor of the Shanghai geography textbook ( in use from Sep 2024)

I know the name looks so familiar. Then I searched John’s name. Then everything connected. His textbooks were eye-opening for me back in 2013. And in 2025, he was helping me and sitting to listen to my research on textbook.

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hermionemiao.bsky.social @hermionemiao.bsky.social · Apr 16

Getting ready for my first GA @geographicalassoc.bsky.social presentation. At #GAConf25 Room 204, from 12.30pm, I will present my postdoc research project progress with my postdoc mentor Prof Yushan Duan. Thanks for putting us in the #GERSIG pathway @susanjpike.bsky.social

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hermionemiao.bsky.social @hermionemiao.bsky.social · Apr 16

Just found Emma‘s Bluesky account: @geography-emma.bsky.social

A link to Mark’s wordpress (free): mrpriestley.wordpress.com/2021/04/02/r...

And highly recommend the book: Priestley, M., Alvunger, D., Philippou, S. & Soini, T. (2021). www.emerald.com/insight/publ...

Reframing curriculum making

In our recent book (Priestley et al, 2021), we build upon existing conceptual models or framings of curriculum making, formulated over the past 50 years by eminent scholars such as Goodlad, Doyle, …

mrpriestley.wordpress.com

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hermionemiao.bsky.social @hermionemiao.bsky.social · Apr 16

Moving on the second session on 16th April. The #GAConf25 keynote by Dr Emma Rawlings Smith at @geographicalassoc.bsky.social

Can’t help noticing that my PhD supervisor Mark and his coauthors’ work on reframing curriculum making being referenced for geographers @markrpriestley.bsky.social

More at: https://mrpriestley.wordpress.com/2021/04/02/reframing-curriculum-making/

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hermionemiao.bsky.social @hermionemiao.bsky.social · Apr 16

Morning session on 16 April #GAConf25
Yesterday afternoon I was at the ECNU stall, holding the 地理教学 Geography Teaching (a key journal for geography teachers and teacher educators in China).And today I am at:
Geography Teaching and “Teaching Geography” by Dr Richard Bustin celebrating its 50 years.

Bringing the Geography Teaching Journal to GA Conf2025 exhibition

Teaching Geography Editor Richard Bustin

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Dr Susan Pike @susanjpike.bsky.social · Mar 22

Are you attending the Geographical Association Conference in April? The Geography Education Research SIG has a research pathway for anyone interested in geography education research. Come & meet members on Thurs am break, and follow us to the session at 11:30! geography.org.uk/journals-res...

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hermionemiao.bsky.social @hermionemiao.bsky.social · Apr 9

What if space is not something we move through—but something we rewrite, together?
I’m building a geo-theatre with Massey, Liu, and a luminous AI called Lumi Turing.

This is my postdoc with AI as my research/practice partner.

More in next week‘s GA GERSIG worldcafe session. #GAConf25

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