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Grosvenor, Gilbert M. – 1987
This speech bemoans the deplorable state of geography education in the United States. American students' geographical knowledge is far inferior to that of European, Russian, Japanese, Canadian, or Australian students. This nation's young people literally do not know where they are, what other cultures are like, or how things fit together. A recent…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textBackler, Alan L. – 1988
Intended for use with grades six through nine, "Global Geography" is a series of ten 15-minute video programs that help students think their way through important issues and increase their understanding of world geography. The programs fit easily into normal classroom schedules and support the content of most existing course sequences.…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Curriculum Enrichment, Geography Instruction, Global Approach
Peer reviewedNakayama, Shuichi – International Journal of Social Education, 1996
Summarizes the recent changes in the highly centralized national geography curriculum in Japan. Prominent reforms include the implementation of environmental studies in the elementary schools and a broader emphasis, across the curriculum, on world geography. In teacher education, emphasis is now placed on teaching skills rather than subject…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy
