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

 
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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

Catling
       

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

 

Solem    
 
       
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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

Alexandre

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
Muniz-Solari • 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
Ivy Tan  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

Sirpa Tani

       

 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

Van der Schee

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

     

 

   
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Honorary Members  
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 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

Haubrich
       

 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

Stoltman

 

 
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2010 IGU
Commission on
Geographical Education