La educación geográfica contemporánea, la geografía escolar tradicional y el pensamiento crítico

Abstract

The purpose is to reflect on contemporary geographic education, traditional school geography,and critical thinking. These are three aspects that facilitate understanding the reasons forimproving their educational quality, in the conditions of the contemporary world. This meansexplaining the fundamentals of Geographical Education, the affection for the transmission ofnineteenth-century content and the incentive for critical thinking. Methodologically, adocumentary review was carried out to propose the analysis on the situation of contemporary Geographical Education, the characteristic problems of traditional school geography and the needto promote critical thinking as an option to overcome the affect on memorization. It concludes byunderlining the need to overcome the contradictions derived from this pedagogical relationship,as an impediment that hinders understanding the globalized environmental, geographical andsocial complexity and its effects on the quality of life of the world community.