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Geography Education for Global Understanding

International Perspectives on Geographical Education

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, Switzerland
Published: 2nd Feb 2019
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm d 14mm
Weight: 378g
ISBN-10: 3030084000
ISBN-13: 9783030084004
Barcode No: 9783030084004
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This book presents the core concepts of geographical education as a means of understanding global issues from a spatial perspective. It treats education, supported by high standards, approaches, methodologies, and resources, as essential in exploring the interactions of the world's human and environmental systems at local, regional, and global scales embedded in the nature of the discipline of geography. It covers topics such as climate change, sustainable development goals, geopolitics in an uncertain world, global crisis, and population flows, which are of great interest to geography researchers and social sciences educators who want to explore the complexity of contemporary societies. Highly respected scholars in geography education answer questions on key topics and explain how global understanding is considered in K-12 education in significant countries around the globe. The book discusses factors such as the Internet, social media, virtual globes and other technological developments that provide insights into and visualization - in real time - of the intensity of relationships between different countries and regions of the earth. It also examines how this does not always lead to empathy with other political, cultural, social and religious values: terrorism threats and armed conflicts are also essential features of the global world. This book opens the dialogue for global understanding as a great opportunity for teachers, educators, scholars and policy makers to better equip students and future citizens to deal with global issues.

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"It is ... principally a book for an academic audience but would be of interest to secondary Geography teachers with a passion for Global Education and the potential of Geography Education in a contemporary geopolitical context. ... The strength of this book is the manner in which it focuses on the way geography can be used to promote global understanding in what is an increasingly fractious and fraught geopolitical context." (Grant Kleeman, Geographical Education, Vol. 32, 2019)