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Geography, Culture and Education The GeoJournal Library Volume 71 Managing Editor: Max Barlow, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Founding Series Editor: Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany Editorial Board: Paul Claval, France Yehuda Gradus, Israel Risto Laulajainen, Sweden Sam Ock Park, South Korea Herman van der Wusten, The Netherlands The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume. Geography, Culture and Education edited by ROD GERBER University of New England, Armidale, Australia and MICHAEL WILLIAMS University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.v. A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 978-90-481-6125-6 ISBN 978-94-017-1679-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-1679-6 Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2002 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2002 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2002 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. CONTENTS Preface Vll ix List of Contributors Section 1: Introduction I. Geography as an active social science Rod Gerber and Michael Williams Section 2: Geography and Culture 2. Geography as a cultural field 13 Wayne Davies and Mary Gilmartin 3. Geography, culture, values and education 31 Gwyn Edwards 4. Geography, technology and culture 41 Sue Buzer 5. Traditional medicine in Southeast Asia with special reference to Malaysia and Indonesia 51 Shaharudden Ahmad 6. Cultural interpretation and research in geography 65 Anders Narman Section 3: Geography and Citizenship 7. Connectedness and self-meaning 77 Margaret Robertson 8. Geography and the informed citizen 93 David Lambert 9. Active citizenship: empowering people as cultural agents through geography lOS DanieJla Tilbury 10. Environment and citizenship: from the local to the global liS Manuela Malheiro Ferriera vi 11. Political geography, geographical education and citizenship 127 Joeseph Stoltman and Lisa DeChano 12. Geography and communities 145 Dooil Kim Section 4: Pedagogic Implications 13. Geography, culture and knowing: hybridity and the production of social and cultural knowledge 159 Jeff Lash and Pamela Wridt 14. Public participation and the active, critical citizen: another view 169 David Stea 15. New technologies and their impact on the culture of geography teaching and learning 179 John Lidstone 16. Conflict management: the role of geographical education 191 Julie Okpala and Ann Okolo 17. Geography beyond the classroom: achieving cultural understanding through issue-based inquiry learning 207 Tammy Kwan Section 5: Future Directions 18. Globalisation and Latin America: a fruitless search for balance 221 Josefina Ostuni 19. Geographical education and the challenge oflifelong learning 233 Rod Gerber and Michael Williams PREFACE An important challenge for our world is to understand how cultural understanding and geographical education can be linked and used to improve the global society. We readily accept that our world is constituted by numerous groups of people who are organised by committees, tribes, regions, nations or continental entities. How these groups interact, show concern for each others' well-being and progress is still an unpredictable activity. Intercultural tensions, racial conflicts and religious clashes have all led to the challenges for enacting a constructive world. Fundamental perspectives challenge moderate ones, and the resulting tensions produce elements of fear, doubt and distrust. The extremist views of terrorist groups exaggerate these tensions to the extent that some different cultural groups do not prefer to live in peace with their neighbours. Deep-seated intercultural tensions predominate over peaceful co-existence. Such challenges may easily dominate the interaction between racial groups, tribes, indigenous peoples and colonisers. However, we know that through the sound practice of intercultural understanding, cultural groups in different contexts around the world can interact and co-exist successfully and productively. In fact, they can work together to seek to improve their society. This does not mean that one group will dominate the other. Rather, it means that both groups work together to improve their collective lives. Education has played an important role in the long-term achievement of such harmony. This volume has been developed to demonstrate that geographical education can be a potent force in the development of cultural understanding in different societies. Such development can occur in a constructive manner when geographical educators adopt strategies that develop or enhance this understanding. The wide range of international geographers and educators who have contributed from their own perspectives reflect the mosaic of views held in the wider social and cultural world. Their goals in this volume have been to provide an understanding of: the place of geography in intercultural understanding; the various forces that influence the role of: geography in the intercultural field; the contribution that geography can make in the development of an effective, active citizenry; pedagogic approaches to promote such understanding through geographic education; and some predictions of how such an approach can be projected into the future for the sake of the well-being of our society. We are confident that geography can contribute strongly to making our planet a better and more harmonious place in which to live. Rod Gerber Michael Williams March 2002 vii LIST OF CONTRffiUTORS Shaharudin Ahmad Faculty of Social Science and Humanities Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 UKM Bangi Selangor Malaysia Sue Buzer School of Design and Built Environment Queensland University of Technology, George Street Brisbane 4000 Australia Lisa De Chano Geography Department Western Michigan University Kalamazoo Michigan 49008 United States of America Wayne Davies Department of Geography University of Calgary Calgary T2N 1N4 Alberta Canada Gywn Edwards Faculty of Education Hong Kong University Pok Fulam Road Hong Kong Manuela Malheiro Ferriera Department of Education University Alberta Rua de Escola Politecnica 147 1269-001 Lisbon Portugal Rod Gerber Faculty of Education, Health and Professional Studies University of New England Arrnidale 2351 Australia ix x Mary Gilmartin Department of International Studies Nottingham Trent University Clifton Lane Nottingham NG 11 8NS United Kingdom Dooil Kim Department of Environmental Science Korea Military Academy Nowon-gu, Gongneung-dong Seoul 139-799 South Korea Tammy Kwan Faculty of Education Hong Kong University Hong Kong David Lambert Institute of Education University of London London WCIH OAL United Kingdom Jeff Lash University of Houston - Clear Lake Houston United States of America John Lidstone Faculty of Education Queensland University of Technology Victoria Park Road Kelvin Grove 4059 Australia Anders Narman Department of Human and Economic Geography School of Commerce and Law Gothenburg University Gothenburg SE 405 30 Sweden Ann Okolo Faculty of Education University of Nigeria Nsukka Nigeria Julie Okpala Faculty of Education University of Nigeria Nsukka Nigeria
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