Geographic Education in "The Age of Humanities": Postmodernistic Demands Make It "in" Again

Abstract

Ours' is the time of a new revival of humanitarian values & of increased importance of "human" angle to sciences, time to revert to concept of education as enlightenment rather than simple accretion of factual knowledge. Emerging "Postmodern" world is one of increasingly recognized & re-affirmed cultural diversity. Already now cultual factors are recognised as major

differentiating factors behind divergent development paths of regions & countries. A whole new discipline of "cultural political

economy" is emerging (i.e. frequent discussions on "confucian capitalism"). Culture also may well serve as link concept for geography's eternal topic of man-environment relationships. All the above-said brings Culturally-Biased Human eography into the focus of geography teaching.