•We need accept that humans continue to push the earth closer to planetary boundaries.•As an integrating discipline, geography is ideally to understand human impact.•The International Year of Global ...Understanding offers practical solutions.•The International Geographical Union promotes sustainability education and research.
Increased pressure on the earth's resources has led to what is increasingly referred to as the climate crisis. While a whole range of environmental parameters have been transformed through such pressures, the effect of human activities on the climate is symbolic of the nature of the human footprint upon our planet and makes the lack of any coherent political leadership in most countries even more alarming. The discipline of Geography has a distinct advantage in developing a more holistic understanding of global environmental challenges in that it reaches across all the sciences (including social sciences and humanities). Geographical education therefore represents an important vehicle for citizens of all ages to help them understand the complexity of the sustainability goal and what can (and should) be done to achieve a more sustainable future. In this essay, I reflect on three approaches that are available to individuals and communities towards taking the steps to sustainability. The philosophy embodied by the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) is suggested as a particularly valuable tool for geography educators. The activities of the International Geographical Union (IGU) offer important opportunities for geographers to learn from each other and promote best practice in geographical education. As ‘the science for sustainability’, Geography has an increasingly important role to play in developing the knowledge and the skills to equip future generations with the tools to adapt to and mitigate potentially catastrophic global environmental change.
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The skills used in all areas and stages of education are important also in geographical education. The concept of skill is important for the individual’s life at all stages of Education. Geographical ...skills contribute to the abilit y of individuals to think critically and solve problems. They also enable the individual to think at a metacognitive level. In this study, it was aimed to show the degree to which secondary geography textbooks gain the level of use of map skills. Maps are communication tools that show where and how positional information is found. One of the most important materials to be used in geographical education are Maps. The map, which will appeal to the studen t, should benefit the individuals in their daily life by an inductive method. Individuals with map skills can transfer this directly into their lives. They can both read the immediate environment in which they live and have global mapping skills and positio n analysis skills. In this study, skills, geographical skills, geography textbooks were analysed to determine their conceptual framework by focusing on map usage skills. This research is a qualitative one , with research data of 9, 10, 11 and 12 grade textbooks printed forthe 2017-2018 to 2019-2020 academic ye ar s. The process of collecting and analyzing geography textbooks used the document review technique.
Zero Waste for geographical education on sustainability Guaran, Andrea; Venturini, Federico
Geography notebooks = Quaderni di geografia = Cahiers de géographie = Cuadernos de geografía,
07/2022, Volume:
5, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Environmental education is vital for raising awareness of sustainable development. Zero Waste is a holistic model that goes beyond waste reduction and recycling, and calls for a reshaping of ...contemporary modes of production and consumption while also promoting active citizenship awareness. Exploring Zero Waste principles, this article situates and demonstrates its alignment with key international documents, such as the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Already used in some educational contexts, the Zero Waste model has the potential to encourage a new perspective to fundamentally reconsider and redesign our relationship to what it means to be actively more sustainable, through a systemic and circular approach. We outline how educational geography and sustainability practices can both benefit from, and support, a dialogue with Zero Waste principles.
In Scotland, there is ongoing concern about the status of geography in education. Numbers of pupils studying geography have been falling at a time when the relevance and importance of geography ...should be high, given the significance of issues like climate and biodiversity change. Why people choose to study geography is crucial knowledge for a vibrant discipline seeking to grow the subject and perceptions of its value. This paper is a companion paper to Selmes et al. (2022) which reported on quantitative data about geographers in the Scottish secondary and tertiary education sectors. This paper confirms that the tide is turning for geography study in Scotland, with entries now rising at all levels. Furthermore, an online survey of 93 pupils found that they choose to study geography because they enjoy the lessons and are interested in the content, feeling able in the subject and that it will be useful in paid work. Conversely, pupils say they choose not to study geography when they do not perceive it will be useful in their career or because they have not found it interesting or an enjoyable experience. The question for all professional geographers is how we might together improve on the current situation.
This paper makes a case for revisiting the understandings of translation to enhance the co-production of geographical knowledge on climate change. Specifically, it offers insights about the potential ...role that schoolteachers and students can have as knowledge producers in relation to climate change by drawing on a case study of collaborative research on El Niño in Sechura, northern Peru. We call for researchers to pay greater attention to how co-production can be achieved through the integration of research agendas and practice with curricula development and innovation in school education. We contribute to work on how a generational shift in understanding about climate adaptation can be achieved through exploring communities' knowledge of the lesser-known opportunities of the El Niño phenomenon in northern desert regions. We conclude by arguing that revisiting how geography engages in and with translation is an urgent priority in climate-challenged times.
The article explores the role of geographical education at the present stage, it examines the main problems. The causes underestimation of geography as a school subject and as a science. The role of ...the All-Russian public organization "Russian geographical society", activity which is aimed at the revival of geographical education at all levels. On the basis of analysis of the professional associations of teachers of geography in the regions of Russia, the conclusion about the need for the Association of Geography Teachers Nizhny Novgorod region. The purpose of the Association is to consolidate the forces of geography teachers to enhance the prestige of the teaching profession, professional development and deepening of inter-regional and international relations, improve geographic education of students in the direction of its humanization, humanization, education of youth in the spirit of the priority of human values, patriotism and citizenship. The Association aims to raise the status and quality of geography education in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Disclosed are the main directions of its activities as an educational and informational, scientific and methodological and research.
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