Overseas experiences provide educators with exceptional opportunities to incorporate field study, firsthand experiences, and tangible artifacts into the classroom. Despite this potential, teachers must consider curricular standards that direct how such international endeavors can be integrated. Furthermore, geography curriculum development is more…

Observations are given upon interviews with children about their perceptions of continents, countries and places within those countries. A picture emerges that suggests there is a clear difference between children's geographies and geography as constituted as an adult academic subject, even when the same language is being used. (Contains 1 table…