Geography is a very interesting subject in K-12 education but when it use more practical and applied oriented in classroom teaching. Status of geography subject could be increased in classroom in India when the curriculum designed for the vision with job generation. The future of geography lies from the core things with more applied vision through technological advancement.

Very bright! With advent of GPS and Google Earth technology, teachers can enhance the its delivery by incorporating these technologies other emerging ones in creative ways into the subject for enhancing student engagement and interest.

Best regards,

Debra

Actually, in my country majority of students in arts and humanities stream have taken geography as a the first subject. In graduation level , students are eager to take this subject. In reality very few of them have the strong knowledge base in this subject. Geography is a subject where the field work and practical application is the best way to answer any complicated question. In schools , these options are so limited. Being a citizen of a metro city it seems really difficult for a child to understand the geography of a rural space and the same problem is happened with the students of the rural area. It seems very important to include field based study in this subject to enhance the quality of the students

If the status of geography is declining, and I have no information that shows it is, I still think it is an important core subject, at least for the early school grades, up to 6th, perhaps. Children certainly need to learn about the physical characteristic of the earth, where countries lie, and something about the natural conditions of each region that influence their peoples' cultural environment, behavior and mindsights. Geography should continue to be taught, especially because of the greatly increased "connectedness" among the more advanced countries technologically. To paraphrase Hillary Clinton, the world has become more of a "village." I think a good understanding of geography will help us understand one another better and counter terrorism and other evils, prejudice and other irrational thinking, etc., that often arise from the lies promulgated via social media and truly "fake news." Good luck with all that!

There are so many possibilities if geography is taught right across the school curriculum (with cooperation from your teacher peers and the student body). With IT opportunities what have geography teachers to lose? It was such a boring topic in my young days, or rather my teachers presented it that way. Take your students out of the classroom into the world and show them its uses and applications there during lessons. Much more fun. We need it more than ever today with boundary and population shifts, climate change, agriculture, topography in crises. Be positive! What about space geography? Get all the geographers of the world to talk to the rest of us and teach us how we can and should all use it in our daily lives.

Dear Mohammed,

Geography is a subject with a long history in the realms of education and one which is even more relevant than ever. Yet there is decline in interest and uptake.

Geo-sciences disseminate the knowledge about nature and help in integration with other sciences. I strongly recommendation and with great concern that the subjects of geosciences must be included in syllabus of elementary, secondary level schools and colleges.

Regards,

Jahangir

Geography education means the role and purposes of geography in primary and secondary education.

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Geography is core subject in social studies major -- in Indonesia, high school level diverse into 3 major ie natural sciences, social studies, and literature / languages studies (Since Curriculum 2013 aka Kurtilas). But, if students chose others major, they can study geography as extra-course.

The reason may be due to the lack of inclusion in the curriculum of real environmental problems, how to overcome them, and focus on topics not related to geographical reality.

I agree with you Dr. George J. Strachan.

Thanks Catherine Jones.

Humanity has evolved to where we are thanks to explorers and their spirit of knowing the wonderful world around us. Two subjects are basic for the development of the others: Geography and History, Space and Time. From there and from the inquiring spirit of man, the other sciences have developed. It is important to reassess the importance that these two subjects have in the basic education curriculum (K12) to return them to the corresponding grades.

Carlos,

a very good point. A seminal paper in Geography many years ago was “Space, Time and Causality - Schumm & Lichty”, if I am right. The study of geography goes back to the Greeks - Plato , Aristotle and others set it high in terms of required education. So too during the Renaissance when learning was seen as something to seek after. How important that our curriculum contains a major input of what Erasmus and contemporaries called the “humanities”. Sadly, I fear recent years has seen a return to a severely limited Introverted approach to education in Scotland in which STEM subjects dominate - i.e. Science, Technology, English and Maths. All very well, but all of these can and are taught in a well developed Geography syllabus.

kin d regards

George

Dear Dr. Mohammed A. Al-Nofli ,

Please see this useful link:

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199874002/obo-9780199874002-0028.xml

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I think that the main problem that geography suffers from is integrated curricula (social sciences, humanities..STEAM), abstract competencies. Geography should be as a separate subject (like math).

https://www.slideshare.net/ZigmasKairaitis/essay-on-geography

I agree with Zigmas, Geography has the physical geography and the human geography and that is why in Kenya, it is an elective in secondary school. But if you want to do civil engineering or surveying geography is a must. Since these courses are there to stay, I see geography being still here for a long foreseeable future as we explore the space.