Geography, Culture and Education

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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An important challenge for our world is to understand how cultural understanding and geographical education can be linked and used to improve the global society. The extremist views of terrorist groups exaggerate these tensions to the extent that some different cultural groups do not prefer to live in peace with their neighbours.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-09-22
Mått155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt411 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGeoJournal Library
Antal sidor250
FörlagSpringer
ISBN9789048161256

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Section 1: Introduction.- 1. Geography as an active social science.- Section 2: Geography and Culture.- 2. Geography as a cultural field.- 3. Geography, culture, values and education.- 4. Geography, technology and culture.- 5. Traditional medicine in Southeast Asia with special reference to Malaysia and Indonesia.- 6. Cultural interpretation and research in geography.- Section 3: Geography and Citizenship.- 7. Connectedness and self-meaning.- 8. Geography and the informed citizen.- 9. Active citizenship: empowering people as cultural agents through geography.- 10. Environment and citizenship: from the local to the global.- 11. Political geography, geographical education and citizenship.- 12. Geography and communities.- Section 4: Pedagogic Implications.- 13. Geography, culture and knowing: hybridity and the production of social and cultural knowledge.- 14. Public participation and the active, critical citizen: another view.- 15. New technologies and their impact on the culture of geography teaching and learning.- 16. Conflict management: the role of geographical education.- 17. Geography beyond the classroom: achieving cultural understanding through issue-based inquiry learning.- Section 5: Future Directions.- 18. Globalisation and Latin America: a fruitless search for balance.- 19. Geographical education and the challenge of lifelong learning.