Towards the Nature of Geography for geography education: an exploratory account, learning from work on the Nature of Science

This paper offers an exploratory account of the Nature Geography (NOG) for geography education. The proposed NOG framework describes through theoretical offerings family resemblance approach across dimensions of: aims and values; knowledge; methods methodological rules; practices; as a social-institutional system. In science education, recontextualized has stimulated fruitful contributions to research, including its applications analytical tool curriculum research development, inform teacher Rather than seeking describe essence illusive shared epistemological object study, shown be robust in education with space multiple foci flexibility hold unresolved questions tension. Our argument is that integration into would introduce students more holistic understanding different ways which values, knowledge, methods, practices, interact construction constitution geography. We suggest possibilities teaching resources,