School geography: Exploring a definition

This free course, School geography: Exploring a definition, focuses on how geography is currently being taught and understood. While studying it you will read about the significance of geography as a subject, looking at differing views as to exactly which disciplines make up geography. The course also includes a lesson plan and a look at definitions of geography as a medium of education.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Mapping geography
• 1 Mapping geography
• 1.1 Chasms and great divides: can we imagine a world without geography?
• 2 The subject discipline
• 2 The subject discipline
• 2.1 The significance of geography as a subject
• 3 Thinking geographically
• 3 Thinking geographically
• 3.1 Using and developing a popular topic: migration
• 4 Geography's educational power
• 4 Geography's educational power
• 4.1 Geography as a medium of education
• Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements