Commission on Geographical Education: about the Commission

Guidelines of the IGU-CGE

The IGU Commission on Geographical Education functions under these guidelines: Guidelines for Commissions and Study Groups (PDF)

Aims of the IGU-CGE

The IGU Commission on Geographical Education has set the following aims:

To implement the purposes of the International Geographical Union as defined in its statutes to promote geographical education around the world.
To enhance the place of geographical education in school, higher, vocational and community education, to develop higher international standards in geographical education, and to improve its status, role and image in school and university education, by disseminating the International Charter on Geographical Education and the International Declaration on Geographical Education for Cultural Diversity.
To develop an international research culture to conduct both local and cross-cultural investigations into issues of concern in geographical education.
To investigate and develop environmental education and education for development.
To investigate ways technology can enhance geographical education.
To develop the www-site of the Commission with internet standards and with refereed material.
To collaborate with other IGU Commissions to produce high quality teaching and learning materials incorporating research-based pedagogy.
To develop the capacity for citizens in all countries to increase awareness of geographical education as an important medium for promoting an active and informed citizenry and a more fulfilling life.
To improve communication amongst geographical educators across the world to enhance the Commission on Geographical Education as a community of scholars, and to promote and contribute to the scholarship of teaching in geographical education at all levels.

List of members of the IGU Commission on Geographical Education


Chair • Lex Chalmers The University of Waikato Department of Geography Private Bag 3105 Hamilton New Zealand Tel: +64 7 838 4436 Fax: +64 7 838 4633 E-mail: lex@waikato.ac.nz		Secretary • Simon Catling Professor of Education Research Leader, Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education Westminster Institute of Education Oxford Brookes University Harcourt Hill Oxford OX2 9AT Tel: +1865 488499 Email: sjcatling@brooks.ac.uk

Treasurer • Michael Solem, PhD Educational Affairs Director Association of American Geographers 1710 Sixteenth Street NW Washington, DC 20009-3198 Tel: 202-234-1450, ext. 143 Fax: 202-234-2744 E-mail: msolem@aag.org



• Fernando Alexandre Geography Coordinator - Department of Social Sciences S. João do Estoril High School & Education and Development Research Unit Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Lisbon Rua Brito Camacho, 2769-501 Estoril, Portugal Tel: +351 214658440 Fax: +351 214658447 Email: fernando.alexandre@essje.pt		• Yoshiyasu Ida Doctoral Program in School Education, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences,(Institute of Education) University of Tsukuba Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8572 Japan Tel/Fax:+81-29-853-6731 Email: ida@human.tsukuba.ac.jp

• Osvaldo Muniz-Solari Associate Professor of Geography Department of Geography Texas State University San Marcos, TX 78666, USA Tel. 512-245-0375 Email: o.muniz@txstate.edu		• Sibylle Reinfried University of Teacher Education Central Switzerland (PHZ) Department of Teaching and Learning Museggstrasse 37 CH-6004 Lucerne, Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)44 382 27 87 Email: sibylle.reinfried@phz.ch

• Ivy Tan Associate Professor Humanities & Social Studies Education Academic Group National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616 Tel: (65) 6790 3415 Fax: (65) 6896 9410 Email: ivy.tan@nie.edu.sg		• Sirpa Tani Professor of Geography and Environmental Education Department of Teacher Education, Applied Sciences of Education P.O. Box 9 FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Tel. +358-9-19129572 Email: sirpa.tani@helsinki.fi

• Joop van der Schee Centre for Educational Training, Assessment and Research Free University Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1105,1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands Fax +31 20 5989250 Email: j.a.vander.schee@vu.nl Co-chair Olympiad Task Force		• Wang Min Professor of Geography Beijing Normal University No. 19 Xinjiekouwai Street Beijing 100875 People's Republic of China Tel: 86 10 62206307 Fax: 86 10 58836093 Email: wangmin@bnu.edu.cn



Honorary Members

• Sarah Bednarz Department of Geography Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843-3147 United States Tel: 979 845 1579 Fax: 979 862 4487 Email: s-bednarz@tamu.edu		• Hartwig Haubrich Am Birkenrain 34 79271 St. Peter Tel. 0049 (0)7660 565 Fax: 0049 (0)7660 920088 URL: home.ph-freiburg.de/haubrichfr Emal: haubrich@ph-freiburg.de

• John Lidstone Faculty of Education Queensland University of Technology Victoria Park Road Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland 4059, Australia Email: j.lidstone@qut.edu.au Editor IRGEE		• Margaret Robertson Research Director, Faculty of Education LaTrobe University Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia Tel: +61 3 9479 5616 Fax: +61 3 9479 3070 Email: M.Robertson@latrobe.edu.au

• Joseph Stoltman Department of Geography College of Arts and Sciences Western Michigan University 3219 Wood Hall Kalamazoo MI 49008-5424 USA Office: (269) 387-3410 Fax: (269) 387-3442 Email: joseph.stoltman@wmich.edu Editor IRGEE

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