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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453711803321

Autore

Standish Alex

Titolo

Global perspectives in the geography curriculum [[electronic resource] ] : reviewing the moral case for geography / / Alex Standish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-134-03203-X

1-281-79664-6

9786611796648

0-203-89083-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

910.71/073

Soggetti

Geography - Study and teaching - United States

Geography - Study and teaching - Great Britain

Curriculum change

Education and globalization

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-205) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 The evolution of a discipline and its instrumental applications; Chapter 2 Geography's ethical turn; Chapter 3 From counter-cultural movement to global values: The US geography curriculum; Chapter 4 Global citizenship and the geography curriculum in England and Wales; Chapter 5 The geography of culture or respecting cultural diversity?; Chapter 6 Approaches to teaching global issues; Chapter 7 Global issues in the geography curriculum

Chapter 8 Global advocacy and the cosmopolitan citizen in the curriculumConclusion: Global perspective in the curriculum; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'For geographers across the globe this book provides the arguments for a return to the teaching of geography and why they should reject the politicisation of the subject by education policy makers and politicians. Standish's careful critique shows the necessity of a depoliticised



geography curriculum the irony of which would be that it would ensure that every child could point to Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan on a map.' Prof. Dennis Hayes - Oxford Brookes University, UK'A prescient and critical analysis of the changing face of geographyteaching. Thi