2019 Volume 74 Issue 3 Pages 127-137
Systems thinking is a main basic concept for school geography, however, its implication in daily school geography learning is still unknown. This article offers an overview on competence in educational science and geography education since 1970s. German pedagogue H. Roth developed a competence model and its influence on geography educator H. Köck. The competence was goal-setting theory, but not empirical with evidence at that period. Since 2000s, education scientist F. E. Weinert defined competence renew and geography educator A. Rempfler has developed test items in the framework of Geographic System Competence and conducted empirical validation process.
This paper analyses the test items to get some information about the gap between academic empirical validation and implementation at school geography. Author found that characteristic as text description and model drawing in terms of systems thinking. Through discussion of some findings, this paper introduces some implementation options based on Geographic System Competence.
