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Perspectives on geography education in the Czech National Curriculum

, 2020
The geography curriculum at primary and secondary schools in Czechia is undergoing a revision. This study aims to identify aspects of the current curriculum that may assist in the formulation of recommendations in the revised curriculum.
Michaela Spurná, Petr Knecht, H. Svobodová   +2 more
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Geography education in perspective: an enquiry into Ghanaian senior high school students’ positive and negative attitudes towards geography

, 2020
This paper examines the factors accounting for students’ predilection or aversion for school Geography. The paper draws on data from 116 students (aged 14–19 years) sampled from three public Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the Offinso Municipality of the ...
Foster Opoku, Richard Serbeh, Ebenezer Gyampoh Amoah   +2 more
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Geography Education

2004
The evolution of the profession of geography as an academic discipline has been intertwined with the teaching of geography in schools and colleges (Warntz 1964; Blouet 1981; Cormack 1997; Douglas 1998). Even today, the largest proportion of members of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) is employed in higher education and is charged with ...
Sarah W. Bednarz, Roger M. Downs
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Geographies of Alternative Education

2013
This book offers a comparative analysis of alternative education in the UK, focusing on learning spaces that cater for children and young people. It constitutes one of the first book-length explorations of alternative learning spaces outside mainstream education.
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Sustainability and geography education

J-Reading : Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography, 2016
The balance between man and nature has been disturbed in many places on Earth. At some places, however, we can see how people have been able to organize their society in a more sustainable way. One of the important conditions for a more sustainable society is to have knowledge of the functioning of the different systems that feature both humans and ...
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Critical Geographies in/ of Education: Introduction

Educational Studies, 2009
The great obsession of the nineteenth century was, as we know, history: with its themes of development and of suspension, of crisis, and cycle, themes of the ever-accumulating past, with its prepon...
Robert J. Helfenbein, L. Hill Taylor
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The Geography of Education and the Education of Geography: Agricultural Extension and the Political Ecology of Education

The Professional Geographer, 2018
The spatial nature of learning is increasingly a focus of geographic inquiry. I argue that the spatiality of education, which is where formal learning occurs, has the potential to shape students’ s...
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The geography of education and comparative education

Comparative Education, 2013
This article examines the synergy between a long established discipline, geography, and the younger discipline of educational studies, especially its component, comparative education. Although this synergy was recognised by the founding father of comparative education, Michael Sadler, and one of his principal followers, George Bereday, the geography of
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Geography in Education

The Geographical Journal, 1976
J. A. Steers, Norman J. Graves
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Basic Geography and the Future of Geography Education in Japan

2014
In Japan, many senior high schools require students to take a course in either Japanese History or Geography; most students select Japanese History. Consequently, many students fail to master the minimum level of basic geographic knowledge. To resolve this knowledge gap, the Science Council of Japan introduced in 2011 a plan to make Basic Geography and
Yoshiyasu Ida, Yumiko Takizawa
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