Other Cultures in Geography Teaching

The ways in which "other cultures" are portrayed in geography teaching and concepts of "culture," "culture area" etc. were the subject of a project which started in 1995 and came to a close in 2001. The idea was to go beyond bilateral comparisons and to address views on "other cultures" in a more systematic way, dealing with more general questions. Since existing textbooks and other teaching materials left much to be desired, the project group decided to explore ways for improvement and to develop new exemplary materials. These materials were subsequently tested in schools. They are available on CD-ROM. In 1998, the results were presented during a conference in Braunschweig, where questions of method and approach, as well as classroom experiences were discussed.

Publications

• Stöber, Georg: "Kulturraumkonzepte in Curricula, Schulbüchern und Unterricht", Geographie und Schule 33 (2011), 193, 15-32
• Stöber, Georg: „'Fremde Kultur' in Begründungszusammenhängen - Migration und die Lage der Frauen in Kenia“, in: Das Konzept der Kulturerdteile in der Diskussion - das Beispiel Afrikas, edited by Herbert Popp, Bayreuth 2003, Bayreuther Kontaktstudium Geographie, vol. 2,  199-222
• Stöber, Georg: „Leben in Yasin - Von der Geländearbeit zum Erdkunde-Unterricht“, in: Geographische Rundschau, 53 (2001), issue No 12, 46-49
• Stöber, Georg and Hermann Kreutzmann: „Zum Gebrauchswert von Kulturräumen“, in: Geopolitik. Zur Ideologiekritik politischer Raumkonzepte, Vienna: Promedia, 2001 (= Kritische Geographie, 14), 214-230
• Stöber, Georg (ed.): „Fremde Kulturen“ im Geographieunterricht. Analysen - Konzeptionen - Erfahrungen, Hannover: Hahn 2001 with CD-ROM Leben in Yasin (Nordpakistan). Unterrichtsmaterial für die Sekundarstufe I.
• Schmidt-Wulffen, Wulf: „Schülerorientierter Dritte-Welt-Unterricht“, in: Internationale Schulbuchforschung, vol. 17 (1995): 299-308
• Stöber, Georg: „‚Fremde Kulturen‘ und Geographieunterricht“, in: Internationale Schulbuchforschung, vol. 18 (1996): 175-210

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