TEACHING ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHY - SOME THOUGHTS ON CURRICULUM CONTENT

Authors
Citation
P. Crang, TEACHING ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHY - SOME THOUGHTS ON CURRICULUM CONTENT, Journal of geography in higher education, 18(1), 1994, pp. 106-113
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Geografhy,"Education & Educational Research
ISSN journal
03098265
Volume
18
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
106 - 113
Database
ISI
SICI code
0309-8265(1994)18:1<106:TE-STO>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
In this article I set out some thoughts on the curriculum content of c ourses in economic geography. I argue that the identity of economic ge ography is, at present, as fluid as it has been at an time since the r ise of political-economic approaches in the early 1970s, a fluidity pe rhaps best understood through the context of a 'cultural turn' in the human sciences more generally. I suggest that economic geography needs to respond positively to that turn, engaging in a dialogue with the c ultural that may lead to loss, but also hopefully invention.