Mission:Explore in the journal 'Geography'


It was good to see that Mission:Explore was featured in the Summer 2012 issue of the GA's academic journal: 'Geography'.

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The article, written by Professor Richard Phillips of the University of Sheffield features Keri Smith's books, and also Layton and Blanco White's 'The School looks around' - it also features a couple of missions from our book....


Mission:Explore comes with a tongue-in-cheek ‘WARNING’ on the front – ‘This book is dangerous’. But the back cover issues an invitation: ‘Become a guerrilla explorer and extreme missioner with missions that defy gravity, see the invisible and test your mental agility’. In fact, the book is a little dangerous in places, and not always productively so. To develop the latter example, shops and some shopping centres are private spaces, subject to tight regulation, and it is not always possible for children and young people to use them for games such as hide-and-seek! This underlines the need to approach fieldwork suggestions such as these critically." 


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