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Regional Vs Systematic Geography
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Regional Vs Systematic Geography
This is one way of considering the content in your curriculum and is the work of Alex Standish.
Definitions
- Standish defines systematic geography as the study of one geographical ‘layer’ of the earth’s surface and how it works and is different from other layers.
- Regional geography is the study of how all the different layers interact within one bounded area.
Mixing the two
- The two do not have to be mutually exclusive within a curriculum. You may study different regions and embed systematic geography within this.
- Equally, you might take a systematic approach but use multiple detailed case studies to contextualise to different regions.
Popular approach
- The most popular approach is a mixture of the two, which Standish (2017, 2018) argues is the approach that should be taken in terms of school geography.
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