Why Geography?
What we think: Our lives are geographical. Earth is our home - awesome, diverse, inspiring and ever changing. Studying geography draws on personal experience, to help us better understand the places we live in, why they matter and how they are connected to a globalised world. Geography draws from across the physical, cultural, economic and political spheres to illuminate key issues for the present and the future, explored at all scales.
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Through geography we learn to appreciate the diversity of landscapes, peoples and cultures. Geography is therefore a vital subject resource for 21st century global citizens, enabling us to face questions of what it means to live sustainably in an interdependent world. Geography helps us investigate and to think critically and creatively about the complexities of places, and different views and feelings relating to places. Geography is studied through enquiry; this requires the formulation of effective questions. Fieldwork and outdoor education are essential to geography. The subject helps develop significant elements of the skills framework, with a strong emphasis on utilising maps and visual images as well as new technologies including Geographical Information. These transferable geographical skills help to equip us for lifelong learning as responsible global citizens. (QCA) |
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What Others Say: Geography helps us think more intelligently about ourselves, how to live and the futures that we may need to face. It succeeds in doing this because as a subject it holds things together, in place, across the physical and human domains. It helps us understand the significance of scale and connectedness. (David Lambert) |
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Geography is important, because it opens our eyes; a landscape is no longer a static feature, but a complex battleground of physical and human interactions. Local is no longer local, but a collision point for the interaction of many 'locals' drawn from a global stage. With technology increasingly drawing the world closer together, it is important that the role of Geography in helping the public in understanding this complex and unpredictable world is championed! (Tony Cassidy) Geography makes you see the world from the inside out and the outside in. It helps you figure out weather and whether you're more or less or in between. (Indra Sinon) |
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Geography is important because it allows us to understand the world we live in and make independent, informed decisions using this understanding. (Paul Goodstadt) Geography is important because it's the subject that links the world, history, citizenship, science and much much more! (Suzanne Ward) Geography matters - the planet will still be here when the politicians are long gone. (Ken Grocott) |
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