Function of Geography Education Facing the Changing World

In a period of considerable length, geography only was the records and static description of geography facts. Correspondently, Geography Education was guided to focus upon the acquisition and remembrance of geography facts. Nowadays, as the world is getting smaller and smaller, citizens demands more and more general knowledge of geography. To acquire knowledge of geography will be lasting all one s life, and can not be completed only in the classroom. On the other hand, when man-land relationship is tending to more and more complicated. Knowledge of geography required is getting deepening. Using modern technique to collect and process information, introducing principles such as systems theory and its methodology, Geography has become the unique science which intersects natural science and human science, deals with the man-land relationship and gradually become a discipline directly related to the economic construction. Thereby the aims and tasks of Geography Education in Chinese schools and universities are in changing with the social requirement.