ABSTRACT
Primary teachers of the 1990s discovered that geography is more than just the immediate locality and began to rehabilitate the study of other countries through detailed case-studies. The citizenship issue is an interesting case-study of relevance to geography. Most geography teachers would see their role as already including the encouragement of an element of citizenship. Geography teachers would not want geography to be responsible for teaching all aspects of citizenship, any more than they would wish geography to be reduced to teaching no citizenship. Geography teaching in sixth-forms will have to be intellectually stimulating and the narrow horizons of some careers advice importantly widened. Regular national initiatives such as Geography Action Week and the major surveys organized by the Geographical Association are useful vehicles for such broad publicizing. The Geography for the Young School Leaver project, begun in 1970, took a fresh line about what was appropriate geographic content for 15-year-olds.
