Editorial

Abstract

Welcome to the thirteenth issue (Volume 5, Number 2) of the Review of International Geographical Education Online-RIGEO. This issue of RIGEO focuses on geography in primary schooling, that is, in the education of children from 5 and 6 years old to 11 and 12 years of age. While geography appears as a separately named subject in primary school curricula in a number of nations, such in England and Australia, it more often appears as an element in social studies curricula, for instance in the USA. This is not a new feature (Meyer, Kamens & Benavot, 1992). There are indications of some positive changes occurring in primary geography, in both the single subject and the social studies contexts. For example, the production of content requirements and standards for geography since the early 1990s in the UK (DES, 1991; DfE, 2013) and the USA (Geography Education Standards Project, 1994; Heffron & Downs, 2012), to name but two, has led to developments in curriculum thinking and in classroom practices.