Powerful Knowledge with Geography

Abstract

During the past 50 years or so the subject of geography in the school curriculum in Sri Lanka has been subject to various interventions and misplacements, raising doubts among its practitioners of their discipline’s position in school education. The fact is, although almost everyone endorses the importance and relevance of geography, no one wants to house it in due place in school curriculum. Further, a question often raised by planners is what can geography students do after they finish their school education? Such underestimations have not been limited only to Sri Lanka but also seen even in countries like the USA. Perhaps, geographers themselves should equally bear the responsibility for this unsatisfactory state of affairs. In large measure, we all have forgotten to unravel what is in ‘geography store’ that could justify its due place.