PIERRE MONBEIG IS STILL PRESENT AND THE RIGHT OF LEARNING GEOGRAPHY

Abstract

This article highlights Pierre Monbeig’s contributions in order to think about the contemporary value of teaching Geography in school. It discusses the similarities between those contributions and other trends that also deals with the importance of studying and the value of teaching Geography not only to the formation of future generations’ critical thinking but also to the development of their intellectual functions. It stands out the relationship that author established between their conceptions of Geography and Education, which remain central to the contemporary debate on the expectations of Geographical science when facing dilemmas involving the formation of the geographer and the Geography teacher too. It presents concernment to the quality of teaching Geography and that one of training Geography teachers. It reinforces the need to overcome the isolation that still exists between both the geographer and Geography teacher’s formation, due to the tendency of expanding courses degree, with varied workloads and curricular structures, which in general has not assured Geography teachers who works at school to completely master scientific and academic thinking, causing negative effects on regular students’ schooling process, on geographers’ value and also on the importance of their work to society.