| International Handbook on Geographical Education Contributor(s): Gerber, Rod (Editor) |
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ISBN: 904816172X ISBN-13: 9789048161720 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Reference - Education | Curricula - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 910.71 |
| Series: Geojournal Library |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.29 lbs) 348 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I am very pleased to have been asked by Rod Gerber to provide a preface to such a book. Not least because of the twenty-four chapters, eight are written by former students or colleagues with whom I have worked in the past and whom I still meet at conferences on geographical education. It is with a certain pride and joy that I note the progress which has been made in geographical education both in its day to day teaching and in research, in the twenty years following the end of my term of office as Chair of the Commission on Geographical Education of the International Geographical Union (CGEIUG). My successors, Joe Stoltman, Hartwig Haubrich, Rod Gerber and now Lea Houtsonen, have done much and are continuing to work hard, to foster the development of geographical education. This book is proof, if proof were needed, that the international collaboration in this field, is alive and well, with contributions coming from all the continents (except Antarctica ). It would be a moribund subject that remained unaffected in one way or another by developments on the 'great world stage', as Fairgrieve (1926) would have put it. And, as Rod Gerber shows, the issues of globalisation, of cultural encounters, of differing value systems, of new technologies, of variable economic development and of environmental quality, all feature as topics which influence and are influenced by, geographical education. |