ABSTRACT
Geography addresses the central concerns and issues of citizenship education directly. Citizenship education explains why society can only work to the benefit of everybody if all its members act with consideration towards others. The central message of geography complements this: it is that all human beings are dependent upon one another because all share an environment which is globally inter-connected. The skills specific to geography are mainly those relating to making, using and interpreting maps. The world after the Cold War demands better world-wide place knowledge than ever before, if only because the political monoliths of that dark period are breaking up into small units, each pursuing its own policies. Human geography gives many opportunities for investigations by individuals and groups, for debates and the arguing of cases, for the evaluation of evidence. Inevitably it also raises ethical questions, considerations of the rightness of what is being done.
