Geography Education for Global Understanding

Chapter 1. Introduction: Why geography education matters for global understanding? (Ali Demirci, Rafael de Miguel González, and Sarah W. Bednarz).- Part I: Framework of global understanding.- Chapter 2. Conceptual framework: What is global understanding? (Benno Werlen).- Chapter 3. Issues alarming the world for global action: Why the world needs global understanding? (Chew-Hung Chang).- Chapter 4. International charters and declarations for global understanding: A historical overview from CGE-IGU (Joseph Stoltman).- Chapter 5. Global citizenship as an approach for global understanding (Inga Gryl).- Part II: Geography education for global understanding.- Chapter 6. The role of geography education for global understanding (Michael Solem).- Chapter 7. Geography education around the world: The current situation and trends (Joop van der Schee and John Lidstone).- Chapter 8. How international our national geography curriculums are to tackle global issues? ( David Lambert).- Chapter 9. From classroom practices to global actions: A critical overview of the current geography education to provide global understanding (Margaret Robertson).- Chapter 10. Geospatial technologies for global understanding education (Karl Donert).- Part III: Global understanding in geography education.- Chapter 11. Chile (Fabian Araya).- Chapter 12. China (Yushan Duan).- Chapter13. Finland (Sirpa Tani).- Chapter 14. Japan (Minori Yuda).- Chapter 15. New Zealand (Lex Chalmers).- Chapter 16. South Africa (Aubrey Golightly).- Chapter 17. South Korea (Jongwon Lee).- Chapter 18. Spain (Rafael de Miguel & Maria Luisa de Lázaro).- Chapter 19. The UK (Simon Catling).- Chapter 20. The US (Osvaldo Muniz).- Chapter 21. Turkey (Ali Demirci).- Chapter 22. Conclusion: A road map to empower geography education for global understanding (Ali Demirci, Rafael de Miguel González, and Sarah W. Bednarz).