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Spurná, Michaela; Knecht, Petr; Svobodová, Hana – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2021
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. We use a deductive content analysis approach based on Catling's typology of perspectives on geography…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Educational Change, Curriculum Development
Xiang, Xi; Chen, Yaling; Fang, Yuan; Zhang, Qi – Journal of Geography, 2022
The recent round of curriculum reform in China has proposed the educational goal of developing key competencies. This study examined how key competencies are integrated into geography textbooks for middle schools through pre-designed activities. The results showed that the textbooks emphasized the regional awareness competency. The activities in…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Secondary School Students, Competency Based Education, Foreign Countries
Alam, Sarfaraz – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2020
Constructing the syllabus of a school subject could be a highly contested exercise given the fact that it must cater for the concerns of competing stakeholders and pressures to incorporate all possible aspects of that discipline. For geography, whose field of study is extremely vast, and its nature is not clearly defined, developing its syllabus…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Course Descriptions, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
Nursey-Bray, Melissa – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
The development of culturally and social inclusive curricula is an important aspect of teaching geography. In countries such as Australia with a history of colonial oppression and dispossession the need to acknowledge Indigenous history and peoples in teaching is vital. This paper reports on the lessons learned from being part of the Indigenous…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Curriculum Development, Geography Instruction, Indigenous Knowledge
Sun, Jun; Wu, Youde; Luo, Huasong; Pan, Yujun; Lei, Xiangyang – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
By extracting information from various original materials and using geography departments, curricula, and faculty as indicators, this paper contributes to the discussion of the development of geography in higher education in China from 1904 to 1949. Four mutual connections are outlined. First, the development of geography in higher education is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Geography Instruction, College Curriculum
Nzeadibe, Augustina Chinyere; Uchem, Rose Nkechi; Nzeadibe, Thaddeus Chidi – Journal of Environmental Education, 2018
This study utilized qualitative methods and the urban political ecology (UPE) framework to situate changes in scope and content of undergraduate geography curriculum in Nigeria within the domain of education for sustainability. It was stimulated by significant curriculum-related events in the geography department of the University of Nigeria, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction, Human Geography
DeMers, Michael N. – Geography Teacher, 2016
Depending on how you determine the starting point for the technology driving geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing, it is well over fifty years old now. During the first years of its existence in the early 1960s, the new technology benefited relatively few students who attended the handful of college programs that were actually…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Ability, Curriculum Development
Bednarz, Sarah Witham – Journal of Geography, 2016
This article examines Advanced Placement Human Geography (AP HG) in the context of its place in efforts to reform geography education. It presents a critical analysis of the AP program and its curriculum, asserting that it represents "powerful knowledge" as conceptualized by Young. It concludes with a call for research in AP HG aligned…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Advanced Placement Programs, Human Geography, Educational Change
Casinader, Niranjan – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2016
At first glance, the introduction of a national curriculum for Australian schools suggested a new era of revival for school geography. Since the late 1980s, the development and introduction of more integrated conceptions of curriculum design and implementation has seen the decline of Geography as a distinct subject in Australian schools, with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Secondary Education, Geography
Lloyd, Kate; Howitt, Richard; Bilous, Rebecca; Clark, Lindie; Dowling, Robyn; Fagan, Robert; Fuller, Sara; Hammersley, Laura; Houston, Donna; McGregor, Andrew; McLean, Jessica; Miller, Fiona; Ruming, Kristian; Semple, Anne-Louise; Suchet-Pearson, Sandie – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2015
In the context of continuing pressures from managerialist and neoliberal drivers of university reform in Australia, Macquarie University's recent undergraduate curriculum innovation, based on "People," "Planet," and "Participation," has resulted in the embedding and integration of experiential learning in its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Geography Instruction, Curriculum Development
Mitchell, David – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2016
This paper explores the controls and influences over geography teachers' curriculum making. A tension is identified between the teacher's agency to "make" a geography curriculum and a controlling social-economic climate of accountability, performance pressure and technological change which limits the teacher's agency. The paper argues…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, High Schools
Carroll, Kay – Journal of International Social Studies, 2018
Within Australia, globalization, contentious connections with Asia, and an increasing concern with sustainable development and intercultural education have created a new educational framework and curricula. The Australian Curriculum is the tangible, multidimensional, and pedagogic catalyst to deliver capable, creative, culturally aware,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Hidden Curriculum, Global Approach
Winter, Christine – Ethics and Education, 2012
The word "geo-graphy" means "writing the earth". The subject of geography bears responsibility for engaging, constituting and configuring world knowledge, in other words, what the world is. This paper describes an enquiry into the nature of school geographical knowledge at a time of curriculum policy reform. In 2010, the newly…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Geography, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Al-Nofli, Mohammed Abdullah – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2013
There have been remarkable changes in the Omani educational system since the implementation of the Basic Education Reform in 1998. The current study was an attempt to offer insights into the state of geography in the current reform. Particularly, the study examined teachers' preferred reasons for teaching geography, teachers' views on important…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Moore, Niamh; Fournier, Eric J.; Hardwick, Susan W.; Healey, Mick; MacLachlan, John; Seemann, Jorn – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2011
Learning is a developmental journey, and geography curriculum plays a key role in supporting student progression. In this article, we argue that the concept of "self-authorship" is a useful guiding principle in supporting curriculum revision and reform. A series of international case studies illustrate how self-authorship can be enacted…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Curriculum Development, Geography, Case Studies