Geography, Culture and Education

Preface. List of Contributors. Section 1: Introduction. 1. Geography as an active social science; R. Gerber, M. Williams. Section 2: Geography and Culture. 2. Geography as a cultural field; W. Davies, M. Gilmartin. 3. Geography, culture, values and education; G. Edwards. 4. Geography, technology and culture; S. Buzer. 5. Traditional medicine in Southeast Asia with special reference to Malaysia and Indonesia; S. Ahmad. 6. Cultural interpretation and research in geography; A. Narman. Section 3: Geography and Citizenship. 7. Connectedness and self-meaning; M. Robertson. 8. Geography and the informed citizen; D. Lambert. 9. Active citizenship: empowering people as cultural agents through geography; D. Tilbury. 10. Environment and citizenship: from the local to the global; M. Malheiro Ferriera. 11. Political geography, geographical education and citizenship; J. Stoltman, L. DeChano. 12. Geography and communities; Dooil Kim. Section 4: Pedagogic Implications. 13. Geography, culture and knowing: hybridity and the production of social and cultural knowledge; J. Lash, P. Wridt. 14. Public participation and the active, critical citizen: another view; D. Stea. 15. New technologies and their impact on the culture of geography teaching and learning; J. Lidstone. 16. Conflict management: the role of geographical education; J. Okpala, A. Okolo. 17. Geography beyond the classroom: achieving cultural understanding through issue-based inquiry learning; T. Kwan. Section 5: Future Directions. 18. Globalisation and Latin America: a fruitless search for balance; J. Ostuni. 19. Geographical education and the challenge of lifelong learning; R. Gerber, M. Williams.