ABSTRACT
In order to answer what is the place of regional geography in the modern school subject, this chapter examines the evolution of the discipline, leading to an explanation of its epistemology. The chapter considers some implications for contemporary school geography curricula and pedagogy, including how teachers can construct a curriculum to introduce pupils to the discipline. It begins with the idea of a region, and concepts related to this. The chapter shows how regional geography is intimately related to systematic (or thematic) geography and that the failure to maintain the relationship between the two ultimately undermines the scientific credibility of both. Systematic geography focuses on one geographical phenomenon or 'layer' of the earth's surface at a time and explores how it varies with respect to other geographical layers. Regional geography examines the totality of geographical phenomena or layers, and how they are related, at a given locale or region.
