Edukacja geograficzna jako przestrzeń partycypacji
Geographical education as a space of participation

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the study are forms of school participation relating to school geographic education. Two methods of research were used - a comparative analysis and a survwey method using a geo-questionnaire. As a result of the research, it was possible to identify the most important content of selected core curricula and geography-didactic studies relating to participation, as well as to identify forms of school participation - both by students and teachers. On the other hand, using the geo-questionnaire as an example of Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems, the result of a case study from Poznań, which goal was to develop a digital map by teachers to support the organization of fieldwork. As shown, both students and teachers rarely undertake participatory initiatives. An important rationale for the occurrence of such activities are both the global environmental challenges and the quality of the local natural environment. Among students’ activities of a participatory character are those that involve practical-technical and emotional-artistic, cultural activities. These activities involve the creation of teaching aids, the organization of an event with an ecological theme, but also related to fieldwork. Badly needed is a method (or educational strategy) that would promote an increase in the incidence of participatory initiatives in school geographic education. The research results presented in this paper and the conclusions formulated are parts of the doctoral dissertation by D. Abramowicz, entitled. “Social participation and geographic education - application of Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems in organizing fieldwork (2022).

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