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Teaching Geography at
school means to build up citizens of the
world that are conscious, independent,
responsible, critical and able to live in
consonance with the environment, changing it
in a creative and sustainable way, looking
at the future.
Italian Geography devotes
the research mainly in the University field,
where more than 400 teachers work (divided
into the two Sectors: General Geography and
Political-Economic Geography).
Less than 150 are the
teachers actively operating in the Sector of
Geomorphology and Physical Geography.
Working in this field, together with the
University Professors, there are lots of
new-graduated students, studying to take
their Doctor’s Degree.
The Italian Geographers
Association (AGeI) gathers most of the
teachers working in the Universities.
Students who are
interested in this field can find different
courses in the Italian Universities, with
Geography as a reference subject of the
curriculum. There are also specific courses
in Geography.
Three-year-courses in
Geography can be found at the following
Universities: Bologna, Florence, Genoa,
Milan, Padua, Piemonte Orientale
(Eastern Piemonte), Rome, Turin.
Two-year-courses (or
teaching courses) in Geographic Science
can be found at the following
Universities: Bologna, Florence, Genoa,
Milan, Pisa, Rome, Turin.
There are also, two
important historical associations, aiming at
promoting the scientific research and at
disseminating and spreading Geography
disciplines: the Italian Geographic Society
(SGI), located in Rome and the Geographic
Studies Society (SSG), located in Florence.
There are other institutions operating in
the geographic and cartographic sector, such
as the Military Geographic Institute, the
Italian Cartography Association, the Italian
Touring Club.
In the Italian schools
Geography is taught in the nursery school
(experience fields, for example the
knowledge of the world), in the Primary
School (five years) and in the Lower
Secondary School (three years). In the
Primary School and Lower Secondary School
the teaching of Geography belongs to the
historical-geographic area. In the Upper
Secondary School (five years) Geography has
not enough space within the curriculum,
especially in the first “biennio”.
An important link between
school and research is represented by the
Italian Association of Geography Teachers
(AIIG), that gathers Geography teachers from
nursery school to university.
The Association has the
aim to foster the didactic research; spread
the geographic education and culture;
support the mutual international knowledge
and understanding and the rights of all the
populations to development and progress.
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