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Geography is the big-picture subject for our times. It encompasses subjects ranging from the microscopic – how soils form, and how those soils can be protected and managed well to grow food, for example – through to things as large-scale as the future trajectory of megacities and the threat of ever more warming of the planet. Alan Parkinson’s guide clearly and carefully explains why geography is worthy of study, at GCSE, at A level and at university. It is bang up to date.
What do you think of when you hear the word literacy? Depending on what you teach, chances are geography is not the first thought that comes to mind. But believe it or not, geography and literacy naturally share many similarities.
Geography is about preparing people to make the important individual and collective decisions we will all face in the 21st century. At National Geographic, we call the ability to make these decisions geographic literacy, or geo-literacy.
In addition to shared goals, geography and literacy education both focus on these outcomes: strengthening and building vocabulary; reinforcement of reading and writing strategies; practical application of comprehension skills; supplying nonfiction reading and writing topics
Up until the early part of the 20th century, geography mattered in education. It was an expectation for all educated citizens in our country to