Welcome to this archive of John Huckle’s publications. These outline critical approaches to geographical and environmental education developed over five decades. Please use the contact form if you have comments or wish to get in touch.
Latest addition The 2025 edition of Geographical Education, the journal of the Australian Geography Teachers Association contains John’s article ‘Forty years since Brisbane ‘86 and the need for school geography to foster critical global citizenship is greater than ever’.
The article revisits and updates the author’s keynote address to the AGTA conference in 1986. It considers the relevance of Wallerstein’s modern world-system to understanding the ongoing global crisis, outlines the present culture war or hegemonic struggle between right and left populisms, and suggests ways in which advances in the theory and practice of global citizenship education can guide geography teachers as they seek to develop global citizens with the capabilities to help create a better world. It can be download from AGTA’s website.
Meanwhile John continues to work on a forthcoming ebook on critical realism, the philosophy of knowledge he introduced in Critical School Geography. Critical realism is particularly suited to the teaching of geography as it unites the natural and social sciences and the humanities, explains nature, place and space in terms of underlying structures and mechanisms, prompts critical theories of social change, and supports forms of global citizenship based on universal ethics. The drafts of all five chapters can be downloaded from the critical realism page and these are currently being revised and edited before being joined in a single ebook that should be published later in 2026.
John Huckle - Educating for Sustainability 