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School geography: Exploring a definition

Offered By: The Open University via OpenLearn

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Course Description

Overview

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.

Syllabus

  • 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

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