School geography, and the challenges of environmental and current world geographical problems

Authors

  • José Armando Santiago Rivera University of the Andes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.unipluri.9579

Keywords:

scholastic Geography, problematic geography, present world

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the situation of scholastic geography, in its daily scholastic practice, within the framework of the geographic conditions of the globalized world. The thematic one assumes that the complexity of the geographic reality of the global world, it is revealed as a situation characterized by the presence of problematic of ominous social repercussion, while in the school, to teach geography it is a transmisiva work, encyclopedic, determinist, naturalistic and descontextualizate a of immediate the surroundings, that tries memoristics learning and produces a neutral educative action, ingenuous and non-political. That originated a theoretical-methodological answer, whose objective is to analyze the pedagogical function that must within the framework fulfill the geography scholastic of the globalized world. Methodologically, one leaned in a bibliographical revision on geographic, pedagogical and didactic foundations to explain that the education of geography, in the scope of the present world, to have to be coherent and pertinent with the transformation of the geographic reality. According to the experts, its work must be settled down in didactic processes that study problems of the localities, to motivate the democratic participation, activates, reflective and critical of the students and to promote the elaboration of change options that improve the environmental and geographic difficulties towards one better quality of life of the place.

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Author Biography

José Armando Santiago Rivera, University of the Andes

Doctor of Educational Sciences, Mg. Agricultural Ed. Professor-researcher University of the Andes, Venezuela. Member of the Center for Geodidactic Research of Venezuela and of the Research Group on Theory and Didactics of Social Sciences.

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Published

2011-07-10

How to Cite

Santiago Rivera, J. A. (2011). School geography, and the challenges of environmental and current world geographical problems. Uni-Pluriversidad, 10(3), 61–68. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.unipluri.9579

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 3 (2010): LA EDUCACIÓN GEOGRÁFICA EN EL CONTEXTO DE LA ENSEÑANZA DE LAS CIENCIAS SOCIALES

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RESEARCH REPORTS AND UNPUBLISHED ESSAYS

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