Original paper
Geology in School
Wührl, Engelbert
Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften Heft 66 (2010), p. 102 - 103
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published: May 28, 2010
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Abstract
What does the Earth’s crust and the geological knowledge of our students have in common? Both are very thin and fragmentary, even though the interest of students in standard topics such as the structure of the Earth, plate tectonics, earthquakes and volcanic activities is very high in all age groups. But the efforts to implement geology as a subject in the schedule have always been unsuccessful. Students have to put up with more than 30 hours/week of instruction plus homework, amount to 45-50 weekly hours of work; which renders a further increase of the number of lessons simply impossible. On the other hand, the topics mentioned above (in addition to the Soil Science and mineral and energetic raw material deposits) are part of the curricula of the school subject Erdkunde/Geography. But in practice, the number of hours dedicated to this subject is often reduced for the sake of other more “important” subjects.
Keywords
geology • school • environment