This study aims at clarifying roles and challenges that can be contributed by the leader of new public services, specified nonprofit corporation, for geographical education, referring case examples of “Kagoshima-Tanken-no-Kai, ” namely “Kagoshima Exploration Association.”
Even though, a new viewpoint of lifelong learning has recently been additionally included in arguments on geographical education, however, few of those who practice lifelong education have actually studied the field.
With the slogan, “Let's learn geography and history, and consider about to community development, ” “Kagoshima-Tanken-no-Kai” has developed cityscape walk rally since it started its activity in December 2001.
As a result, it is considered that specified nonprofit corporation, called the “fourth sector, ” can take a important role also in education more significantly than before, and therefore, specified nonprofit corporation can establish a policy for the advancement of geographical education, in which school, home and local community closely cooperate with each other.
As a new style of geographical education, introducing geographical education in newly established “hours for comprehensive studies, ” for the development of learners basic knowledge, instead of arguing issues based on conventional educational guidelines, enables us to contribute for the development and enrichment of geographical education by means of an affirmative participation of specified nonprofit corporation, and of taking advantage of close relationship with home and local community.
However, on the other hand, the same kind of activities has already conducted in the field of social education and lifelong education, and at the same time, they have the experience and buildup of the study.
But these studies fail to stand on the viewpoint of geographical education. It is required for the two studies to complement each defects with each other. Accumulation of such activities can lead to the reinstatement of the segmented field of study, geography.
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