Koncepcia vyučovania geografie miestnej krajiny na základnej škole

Conception of Teaching of Local Landscape Geography in Primary School

Ivana Tomčíková

In: Geografické informácie (Geographical Information), Ročník (Volume) 22, Číslo (Issue) 1, 2018, p. 496-507, ISSN 1337-9453

DOI: 10.17846/GI.2018.22.1.496-507

Abstract

The issue of the local landscape is connected to the whole system of geographic education of all levels. At primary school, teaching of geography of the local landscape is represented particularly in the 8th class. In majority of the schools, the traditional structure, based on components of the landscape, is often taught without much emphasis on context. However, the local landscape is the place where the pupils grow up and live, to which they have a relationship and which they also have known by their own experiences. Pupils identify with it and there is a certain emotional bond between them and this place. The aim of the article is to propose the conception of teaching geography of the local landscape. In the proposed concept, the local landscape is a place, which is important for pupils’ further development (sense of place). It is a unique place which should be used to develop pupils' geographic thinking. However, it should be noted that when we want pupils to understand the local landscape, they must study it in broader contexts in relations with the space that surrounds it.

Keywords: local country, sense of place, primary school, geography, Slovakia

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