-Graphy: The Remains of a British Discipline

Autor/in	Chapman, Graham P.
Titel	-Graphy: The Remains of a British Discipline
Quelle	In: Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 31 (2007) 3, S.353-379 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8265
Schlagwörter	Area Studies; Intellectual Disciplines; Human Geography; Social Sciences; World Affairs; Social Responsibility; Foreign Countries; Geography Instruction; Cultural Awareness; Tests; Vocabulary; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Landeskunde; Geisteswissenschaften; Humangeografie; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Weltpolitik; Soziale Verantwortung; Ausland; Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Wortschatz; Großbritannien
Abstract	Within Britain, geography as a discipline has been criticized recently for failing either to add to or teach knowledge about the world at large. Instead it has concentrated first at university and then in schools on spatial social science, with examples drawn overwhelmingly from the white Western world. The recent history of geography is reviewed to see why this should be the case. The end of regional integration, the end of the idiographic, and the divorce of physical and human geography are lamented. The ignorance of current students regarding world affairs is demonstrated. Wider influences on these trends such as the end of empire are discussed. The plight of other academic attempts to understand overseas cultures, such as area studies, is also examined. The paper concludes that for the sake of our social responsibility to education in its broadest sense, as much as for the sake of our disciplinary vested interests, we have to reinvest in integrating physical and human geography in regional settings, as our part of academe's response to the threat to area studies. The following are appended: (1) Geopolitics Class Quiz; and (2) Traffic words by high-level world regions. (Contains 3 tables and 1 note.) (Author).
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