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Geography and Geography Education as the Humanities: Ask the Raison D'$\^{e}$tre  

Park, Seung-Kyu (Department of Social Studies Education Chuncheon National University of Education)
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Journal of the Korean Geographical Society / v.45, no.6, 2010 , pp. 698-710 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the present paper, the raison d'$\^{e}$tre of geography and geography education in the humanities are explained. Geography was not considered as ontology notion and geography was also not aware of regarding ontology. However, human being is the geographic existence. People occupy the space they live in and reveal their own existence by virtue of the space. In geography, we understand human existence by concrete things consisting of the space. Geography can explain the necessity for the space of origin where human being had lost and open a gate to find their own existence through it. Geography education can find the justification as to why we should teach it in 'now here'. We can make a bright future in geography education in terms of critical reflection at the ontological dimension. Geography and geography education have clear reason to exist in right here. That begins from the question of what relationship between human and space is and completes the raison d'$\^{e}$tre based on the answer.
Keywords
ontology; existence; mode of experience; location; graphien; humanities;
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