- Title
- Geography and numeracy
- Creator
- Donnelly, Debra; Martin, Margaret
- Relation
- Numeracy in Authentic Contexts: Making Meaning Across the Curriculum p. 197-224
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5736-6
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- At first glance, Geography may seem a simple study concentrating on locating places and determining how near or far they are from each other. Indeed, the origin of the term supports this idea. The term ‘Geography’ combines two Greek words, ‘geo’ meaning Earth and graphia ‘meaning to draw or describe the earth’. (Gilbert & Hoepper, 2014) However, the contemporary discipline of Geography has a much more ambitious agenda. Modern geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks to understand the world and all of its human and natural complexities. It is now defined as the investigation and understanding of the earth and its features and distribution of life on earth. It is the study of the earth and its features, inhabitants and phenomena. Geography answers questions about why places have their particular environmental factors and/or human characteristics, looks to explain how and why these have changed and developed over time. These issues are investigated at all levels from local to global with an eye to management and sustainability (Taylor et al, 2012).
- Subject
- geography; numeracy; earth; environments; sustainability; education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1393013
- Identifier
- uon:33485
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789811057342
- Language
- eng
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