Los Problemas Socio-Ambientales en Geografía: una Lectura Iberoamericana

Abstract

Discipline instituted in the educational system of the nineteenth century, with the aim of promoting the identification of young citizens with the motherland, the vocation of Geography it’s more to describe a harmonious country than to denounce social or environmental problems. This tradition continues to this day, as the analysis of school programs and textbooks in Portugal, Spain and Chile shows. Social and environmental problems are devalued and reduced to statistical information, where people’s desires are not recognized. This school discourse is reinforced by the performance of international organizations, but attentive to the students’ performance in the areas they consider to have a direct impact on the economy and the labor market, rather than on their citizen training.However, in the Ibero-American space, contact and work networks are developed, which seek a geographically committed social education.