Content and Educational Conditions of Geography as a Subject Reflecting the Comparision of some Central European Countries
Content and Educational Conditions of Geography as a Subject Reflecting the Comparision of some Central European Countries

Summary/Abstract: Regarding geography teaching in Hungary, significant changes occurredin both content and curricula in recent years. In the world of the Internet the subject lost itsunique role in presenting the outside world. As a result, both pupils and teachers demandfor the transformation of the content and teaching methods of the subject. The bridge role ofgeography between social and natural sciences may inspire the development of problemorientated views. This unique character of geography may help to enforce its position inpublic education. For advance in improving the educational situation of geography it isworth comparing it to that in other countries. As a result, a more realistic image might beobtained on whether the current situation of geography in Hungary is unique or it is part ofwider changes of the subject in the region.Primary aim of the present paper is to comparegeography teaching in some neighbouring countries in similar geographical and socioeconomiclocations: Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania. Data of geography teachingin Finland, widely presented as an etalon due to its success are also included in the study.

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