THE NEW GEOGRAPHY

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A landsystem is viewed as an aggregate of many different kinds of landform type and the relationships that exist between them within a drainage basin area. In high school geography education, there is little learning about landforms applied to the view of a landsystem. I had the students learn from each other with the aim of training them in skills and attitudes, to solve various problems related to the land system in addition to understanding it. This paper discusses ways in which students learned about landsytems and how landforms change, and examines ways in which landforms can be studied in the future.

According to the results of a questionnaire completed by the students following a series of lessons,more than half said that upstream of a landform, alluvial plains and coastal landforms are connected by rivers, and that landforms are changed as a result of human impact. They also said that it is easy to understand concepts summarized in the diagram that show landforms and their relationships to geomorphological action, and through tasks in which students work cooperatively.

Students were able to understand, through a series of lessons, that landforms change dynamically, and were also able to understand the relationship between landform types from the river to the sea through the drawing of a diagram. An educational method in which students exchange ideas and assemble a variety of elements is suitable for learning about land systems. Future geography education demands an approach to learning through the perspective of landsystems in the drainage basin area. It is necessary for students to solve problems in order to realize a sustainable society.

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