Geographical Education in the Eighteenth-Century German-Speaking Territories

Autor/inn/en	Fischer, Luise; Withers, Charles W. J.
Titel	Geographical Education in the Eighteenth-Century German-Speaking Territories
Quelle	In: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 59 (2023) 3, S.380-406 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Withers, Charles W. J.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0030-9230
DOI	10.1080/00309230.2021.1872658
Schlagwörter	Geography Instruction; Educational History; Course Content; Teaching Methods; Catholics; Protestants; Geographic Regions; Educational Change; Educational Improvement; Age Differences; Social Status; Gender Differences; Foreign Countries; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Kursprogramm; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Katholik; Protestantism; Protestantismus; Bildungsreform; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Sozialer Status; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ausland; Deutschland
Abstract	This paper examines debates over the nature, purpose, and reform of geographical education in schools in the eighteenth-century German-speaking territories. Attention is paid to contemporaries' concerns over the cognitive content of geography -- what geography was -- and, in greater detail, to their views concerning how the subject might be taught, its teaching improved, and the end in view of teaching it, namely to produce informed citizens. The paper shows that while there was widespread agreement over the utility of geography, opinions differed over how best to teach it, and to whom. These differences centred less on religion, between the largely Catholic southern German territories and the chiefly Protestant northern German territories, and more upon the age, social status, gender, and intended future of the pupil. Proposals for the reform of geographical education argued that geography be taught first with reference to the pupil's locality and to notions of "homeland" from which local setting attention would be paid to other states, countries, and continents. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01