Abstract
Geographic education would benefit through a sustained engagement with contemporary political economy and social theory. This article offers five themes drawn from the current literature that may be incorporated in introductory college geography courses. The themes are: 1) the historical specificity of geography; 2) the interconnectedness of regions; 3) the interpenetration of the human and natural worlds; 4) the centrality of culture, ideology, and everyday life in social reproduction; and 5) the necessity of political economy, including class, gender and race, to uncover social relations. By way of conclusion, it argues for a more historically and politically sensitive form of pedagogy meaningful to students' daily lives.
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