Progression in understanding in geography

Abstract

When should you introduce topographic map reading skills or develop student understanding of people's conflicting views about places and environments? What complexities of geographic issues do you expect students at age seven. 1 I or 15 co grapple with? This chapter i, a brief overview of how students' knowledge and understanding of geography develops; it also provides derailed attention to the pattern of progression in geographic inquiry, as inquiry is seen as the backbone of development for fully fledged geographers. The inquiry framework proposed in this chapter demonstrates the possibilities for enhancing learning in geography through detailed charting of progress. When students apprecia..