Geographical Education in a Changing World The GeoJournal Library Volume 85 Managing Editor: Max Barlow, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Founding Series Editor: Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany Editorial Board: Paul Claval, France Yehuda Gradus, Israel Sam Ock Park, South Korea Herman van der Wusten, The Netherlands The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume Geographical Education in a Changing World Past Experience, Current Trends and Future Challenges Edited by JOHN LIDSTONE Associate Professor of Education, Queenland University of Technology, Australia and MICHAEL WILLIAMS Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Wales Swansea, UK A C.I.P Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13 1-4020-4806-8 (HB) 978-1-4020-4806-7 (HB) 1-4020-4807-6 (e-book) 978-1-4020-4807-4 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands www.springer.com Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2006 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work Printed in the Netherlands CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii List of Contributors ix Foreword International Geographical Education Past, Present and Future xiii Researching Change and Changing Research in Geographical Education John Lidstone & Michael Williams SECTION A TRADITIONS IN SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY Introduction Messages from the Past Bill Marsden 19 Turning Points in Geographic Education Joseph P Stoltman 23 Changing Philosophies in Geographical Education from the 1970s to 2005 $Q,QWHUQDWLRQDO3HUVSHFWLYH Hartwig Haubrich 39 &KDQJLQJ/HDUQLQJDQG7eaching Ashley Kent 55 &KDQJLQJ$ssessment Philip Stimpson 73 SECTION B CONTEMPORARY SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY Introduction School Geography and International Trends John Lidstone 87 Geography in Europe Graham Butt, Michael Hemmer, Agustin Hernando & Lea Houtsonen 93 *HRJUDSKLFDO(GXFDWLRQLQ1RUWK$PHULFD&DQDGDDQGWKH8QLWHG6WDWHV RI$PHULFD) 6DUDK:LWKDP%HGQDU]5REHUW6%HGQDU]7'LFNVRQ0DQV¿HOG Stuart Semple, Ronald Dorn & Michael Libbee 107 *HRJUDSK\LQ$ustralasia Margaret Robertson & Philippa Ferguson 127 *HRJUDSKLFDO(GXFDWLRQLQ(DVW$sia Chi-chung Lam, Peiying Lin, John Chi-kin Lee, Sze Onn Yee & Guang Yang 139 vi CONTENTS *HRJUDSKLFDO(GXFDWLRQLQ6RXWK$merica Maria Lúcia De Amorim Soares, Beatriz Ceballos García, Griselda Garcia De Martin & Fabián Araya Palacios 155 SECTION C THE FUTURE OF SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY Introduction Whither School Geography? 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