This free course, School geography: Exploring a definition, focuses on how geography is currently being taught and understood. While studying it you will read about the significance of geography as a subject, looking at differing views as to exactly which disciplines make up geography. The course also includes a lesson plan and a look at definitions of geography as a medium of education.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Mapping geography
- 1 Mapping geography
- 1.1 Chasms and great divides: can we imagine a world without geography?
- 2 The subject discipline
- 2 The subject discipline
- 2.1 The significance of geography as a subject
- 3 Thinking geographically
- 3 Thinking geographically
- 3.1 Using and developing a popular topic: migration
- 4 Geography's educational power
- 4 Geography's educational power
- 4.1 Geography as a medium of education
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
