International Handbook on Geographical Education (GeoJournal Library, 73)

Gerber, Rod, Editor

ISBN 10: 1402010192 / ISBN 13: 9781402010194

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2003

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Text has some underlining, writing, margin marks on three pages. Writing on rear paste down page. Binding tight. Boards have light wear. Edges of pages have light wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: International Handbook on Geographical Education (GeoJournal Library, 73)
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402010192
• ISBN 13: 9781402010194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

I am very pleased to have been asked by Rod Gerber to provide a preface to such a book. Not least because of the twenty-four chapters, eight are written by former students or colleagues with whom I have worked in the past and whom I still meet at conferences on geographical education. It is with a certain pride and joy that I note the progress which has been made in geographical education both in its day to day teaching and in research, in the twenty years following the end of my term of office as Chair of the Commission on Geographical Education of the International Geographical Union (CGEIUG). My successors, Joe Stoltman, Hartwig Haubrich, Rod Gerber and now Lea Houtsonen, have done much and are continuing to work hard, to foster the development of geographical education. This book is proof, if proof were needed, that the international collaboration in this field, is alive and well, with contributions coming from all the continents (except Antarctica!). It would be a moribund subjectthat remained unaffected in one way or another by developments on the 'great world stage', as Fairgrieve (1926) would have put it. And, as Rod Gerber shows, the issues of globalisation, of cultural encounters, of differing value systems, of new technologies, of variable economic development and of environmental quality, all feature as topics which influence and are influenced by, geographical education.