Education for sustainable development: new map topics in school atlas on economic and social geography of the world

DOI: 10.35595/2414-9179-2020-1-26-158-166

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About the Author

Tatiana S. Nokelaynen

Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Faculty of Geography, World Data Center for Geography,
Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow, Russia;
E-mail: nokelta@geogr.msu.su

Abstract

Sustainable development of territories is one of the most fundamental topics of modern natural and social sciences. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the UN General Assembly (2015), contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on a wide range of human, socio-economic and environmental issues. The national education systems of all countries have been given the task of integrating the SDGs into the content of their school education.

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is multidisciplinary. An exceptional role in the implementation of ESD ideas is played by geography, which comprehensively studies the system “nature – population – economy”. School maps and atlases have a special place in the arsenal of teaching aids. Maps are not only a source of geographic information, but also a tool for research and design work, the basis for discussion in the classroom.

The inclusion of new subjects and themes in the content of school atlases is one of the most optimal and promising approaches to integrating the ideas of sustainable development into school education.

The main result of this research are new cartographic plots reflecting the goals of sustainable development, which were developed and included in the content of the school atlas “Economic and social geography of the world. Natural resources. Population. Economics”. A list of the SDGs and atlas maps corresponding to their topics is provided.

An integrated approach and consistency are the distinctive conditions for studying the problems of sustainable development. World maps of the school atlas are grouped into three thematic blocks: “Global resource problems”, “Global socio-demographic problems”, “Global environmental problems” and supplemented by charts, graphs and explanatory texts.

The topic of sustainable development is also covered in other sections of the school atlas. As an example, we provide a list of atlas maps that can be used when studying the topic “The Problem of Water Shortage and Deterioration of Water Quality”. The world maps in the atlas are presented at scales of 1 : 80 000 000, 1 : 120 000 000, 1 : 160 000 000 and 1 : 250 000 000.

Keywords

sustainable development goals (SDGs), education for sustainable development, thematic mapping, school atlas

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For citation: Nokelaynen T.S. Education for sustainable development: new map topics in school atlas on economic and social geography of the world. InterCarto. InterGIS. GI support of sustainable development of territories: Proceedings of the International conference. Moscow: Moscow University Press, 2020. V. 26. Part 1. P. 158–166. DOI: 10.35595/2414-9179-2020-1-26-158-166 (in Russian)