The Geography and Education Research Group and school geography: Problematics and possibilities

The project facing the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd), launched at the RGS-IBG annual conference in August 2019, is for the research group to explore points of connection between geographies of education and the scholarship of geography education, with its focus on geography in education and its practice of attending to questions of curriculum, pedagogy, teaching, learning, and progression. The purposes and scope of GeogEd are described in detail elsewhere in this issue. Suffice to say here that this is a broad and ambitious endeavour and we join others in wishing the research group well. This paper aims to make a contribution by identifying, from the perspectives of the Geographical Association (GA) and the RGS-IBG, some of the intersections between the work of GeogEd and geography in schools and by shedding some light on the opportunities and challenges ahead. It concludes with proposals for new initiatives for the group to pursue.