Abstract This article examines whether geography can provide the powerful knowledge that is a key element of a Future 3 curriculum, and an important component of the GeoCapabilities Project’s proposals for the teaching of geography. Powerful knowledge is knowledge that gives students the intellectual ability to analyse, explain, predict, evaluate and think about the world in ways that are beyond their personal experience. The article focuses on two aspects of this knowledge. The first is the use of concepts to think in new ways, and the second is the ability to make generalisations and apply them to new contexts. The article also reviews and responds to arguments that geography’s concepts cannot produce powerful knowledge. It concludes that geography in a Future 3 curriculum would emphasise building student understanding of geographical ways of thinking, based on its major concepts and their application. This understanding can be developed through a wide range of content, varying from place to place in an appropriately geographical way.

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地理概念和强大知识在未来 3 课程中的作用

摘要 本文探讨了地理是否可以提供强大的知识，它是未来 3 课程的关键要素，也是地理能力项目地理教学建议的重要组成部分。强大的知识是指能够赋予学生以超出他们个人经验的方式分析、解释、预测、评估和思考世界的智力能力的知识。文章重点介绍了这方面的知识的两个方面。第一个是使用概念以新的方式思考，第二个是进行概括并将其应用于新环境的能力。这篇文章还回顾并回应了地理概念不能产生强大知识的论点。它的结论是，未来 3 课程中的地理将强调建立学生对地理思维方式的理解，基于其主要概念及其应用。这种理解可以通过广泛的内容来发展，以适当的地理方式因地而异。