48 巻 (2000-2001) 2 号 p. 1-11
In this paper, a part of the realities of the renaissance of geography education which progressed from the analysis of the spread activity at the state level in the United States was clarified.
Basic of the spread activity of Pennsylvania can be brought together as follows.
The Pennsylvania Geographic Alliance workshop program offers a variety of content topics and related strategies for the classroom.
The geographic education spread activity of PGA assumes a center object from the kindergarten to the high school student. Not only the teacher in the high school but also the teacher of the geography of a primary level and the university includes the kernel of the activity.
The center of the activity of PGA is holding the workshop in various places in the state, and the teacher in local from the elementary school to the university which took central training of National Geographic Society takes charge of the lecturer.
Not only the content of the central training which NGS did but also training to which the geography teacher in the state has been mainly done the course and so far at the time of made the best use of each lecturer's peculiar characteristic is continuously done.
The harmony of the organization of old and new is seen in Pennsylvania though there was a criticism which is the renaissance of geography education is destrution of a conventional organization.