Host: The Association of Japanese Geographers
Name : Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Spring 2025
Date : March 19, 2025 - March 21, 2025
This symposium is being held jointly with the Japan Society of Geography Education as the 47th Japan Geographical Society Geography Education Open Lecture, under the theme of “New Directions for Learning about the Geography of Japan's Middle and High School Areas in Preparation for the Next Revision: GIS, Fieldwork, and Agency”. This time, too, we would like to deepen the discussion by adding the results of the Japan Society of Geography Education's Middle and High School Integrated Geography Education Curriculum Study Group (2024-2025, represented by Tsuyoshi Yoshida).
Systematic learning and geographical learning are the two wheels of geography education, but in the recent debate over moving from a content-based to a competency-based approach, I feel that traditional geographical learning in Japan is being neglected because it is seen as content-based. Content-based (geographical learning) and competency-based (geographical perspectives and ways of thinking) are not opposing concepts, and both need to be developed through ingenuity.
