The Whole World in Our Hands

Abstract

In 1893 the Geographical Association grew out of the interest of a small group of teachers in developing the quality of geographical education. The initial need to enhance the status of geographical education, to improve the quality of geography teaching, its resources and its assessment and to disseminate advice on effective teaching are matters which still concern the GA in 1993. The teaching of geography builds on the need to foster children's natural geographical understanding and interest in the world around them to give them a clear sense of the physical and human processes at work and to develop their sense of interdependence, international understanding and environmental concern. This perspective on geography is being promulgated world-wide in 1993 through the International Charter on Geographical Education. It is seen internationally as building on and towards the development of human rights. Issues in human rights, and children's rights and experience in particular, must be examined through geographical education since many are intertwined with geographical studies. Inevitably, however, human rights are not a matter of study but of commitment to action. This provides a basis for identifying an agenda for the GA for the next 100 years.

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