ABSTRACT
Secondly, geography teachers should recognise the value and limitations of the new guidance contained in ‘Curriculum 2000’. This seeks to secure students’ commitment to sustainable development at a personal, local, national and global level and gives geography a major role in developing citizenship through reflection and action on environmental issues and the issues and challenges of global interdependence and responsibility. It is supported by the findings of the national forum on values in education and the community: that schools and teachers can expect the support and encouragement of society if they base their teaching and the school ethos on commonly agreed values. The forum’s statement of values relating to the environment (Box 10.11) requires clarification if it is to reflect an ecological humanism, but by embracing responsibility to future generations and other species it points to an appropriate ethical foundation for ecological citizenship.
