International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Editors: A/Prof John Lidstone, Queensland University of Technology and Prof Joseph P. Stoltman, Western Michigan University
Book Review Editor: Dr Sarah Witham Bednarz, Texas A & M University
Editorial Assistant: Donna Bennett, Australia
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Volume: 9 Number: 1 Page: 5–18
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Changes in Youth: No Changes in Teaching Geography? Aspects of a Neglected Problem in the Didactics of Geography
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Günter Kirchberg
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The didactics of geography is living in a world of illusion. The perfect lesson plans presented in journals and the necessary articles on theory correspond less and less to what is happening in the classroom.
Have we closed our eyes to reality? Pupils have changed their behaviour patterns, their interests and their attitudes towards learning. Therefore teaching geography has become more difficult. At the beginning,
this article describes these changes and the root of this transformation. It then presents recommendations to improve the situation. The didactics of geography do not need to be redesigned, but new paths
have to be followed, with new contents, methods and lesson procedures that are better adapted to today’s children and adolescents. Therefore a positive perspective on the changed phenomena is necessary
in order to give today’s pupils the ability to cope with the future.
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