Abstract
EDUCATIONAL GEOGRAPHY – DEFINITION AND METHOD
This research aimed to determine the educational Geographical situation linking with the educational system for primary and secondary studies, To reach the aim, the researcher made an analytic study depends on reading the content of the geographic material starting from the fourth primary stage until sixth secondary stage (literary section )Analytic style has used for analyzing the content as a tool to know more about this material and its courses , Through reviewing the course that applied to the secondary stages, we concluded that it is out of the regional geographic material for the world and this is against the educational deep aim that represented by the geographical field , So in order to fill this gap we suggest adding a material of the Regional geographic material for the world, also the curricula of secondary stage didn’t pay attention to the subject of society's economic social environmental and political problems and their solutions but it came in traditional descriptive style , the geography is now seeking to put its results in an application position as other human and natural sciences that derived their raw materials from many of them ,the geography is concerned with solving a specific problem and not studying a specific area or period of time , and since the surface of the Earth with its phenomena is considered a field for its study , so it requires organizing its exploitation and direction the efforts of human in building it the right direction with the aim of preserving of natural resources without exhaustion and multiplying it so that it remains an asset for the following generations , the development and upgrading of society and its environment is the goal of geography, the researcher determined the essential concepts which mentioned in this Research considering that the results of research came with indications of concepts which a adopted by him , such as Education , Geography and Educational Geography.
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