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To the fifteen year-old living in a prosperous suburb of Munich, or Boston, or Rio de Janeiro, the question ‘What’s the point of studying geography?’ may never arise. It is perhaps self evident that geography is concerned with helping people make sense of the world. It achieves this partly through informing us about the world. Geography is useful in this sense, and an essential component of becoming an ‘informed citizen’. The point of studying geography is clear, therefore, even though the fundamental curriculum design task of selecting the particular content to be taught may remain contentious and challenging.
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Lambert, D. (2002). Geography and the Informed Citizen. In: Gerber, R., Williams, M. (eds) Geography, Culture and Education. The GeoJournal Library, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1679-6_8
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