Teaching financial geoliteracy
Abstract
As financial geography has grown into a mature thematic geographic subdiscipline, it is not only time to discuss how to teach financial geography but also to debate its potential contribution to human geography’s wider curriculum, pedagogy and training requirements. This intervention argues that all geographers would benefit from becoming critically financially literate, to obtain Financial Geoliteracy. It will then, drawing on the curriculum design experience of a postgraduate programme in financial geography at Loughborough University, flesh out questions of “what to learn” (curriculum), “how to learn” (pedagogy) and “why we learn” (training) in financial geography. The contribution concludes by reflecting on the required institutional work to make financial geography a mainstay in broader geography curricula.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Geography Education and Pedagogy
Geotourism and Geoheritage Conservation
Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of Geography in Higher Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 404–415
- Publication date
- 6 April 2026
- Language
- EN