Global-Earth education in geography of high school

Yoshiyasu Ida

Presentation information

[J] Oral

U (Union ) » Union

[U-14] Current status and issues of the earth education necessary for living on the changing earth

Sat. Jun 5, 2021 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Ch.01 (Zoom Room 01)

convener:Hiroshi Ichikawa, Saori Nakai(kyoto koka womens university department of child education), Hidenori Kumagai(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Hiroshi Nishi(The Center for Academic Resources and Archives, The Tohoku Museum Tohoku University), Chairperson:Hiroshi Ichikawa(None)

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

[U14-03] Global-Earth education in geography of high school

★Invited Papers

*Yoshiyasu Ida¹ (1.Faculty of Human Sciences,University of Tsukuba)

Keywords:Global-earth education, Geography in high school, citizenship education

The purpose of this presentation is to clarify the overview and issue of global-earth education in the compulsory subject "geography" in high school."Geography" can be said to be a subject that provides earth education that includes global citizenship education. While aiming for earth education from global perspective, it is also a subject that should foster awareness as citizen under nation of Japan. Teachers who teach "Geography" will be required the balance with global-earth citizenship education based on global natural phenomena, and global education based on tha country or identity of nation will be required. Training teachers who teach "Geography" is an one of urgent issues.