A Study of Attitudes between students in government and private schools toward geography subject

SANDEEP KUMAR
SANDEEP KUMAR (B.Ed.-M.Ed. Scholar, Gyan Vihar School of Education, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India)

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DR. SAILJA DUBEY
DR. SAILJA DUBAY (B.Ed.-M.Ed. Supervisor, Assistant Professor, Gyan Vihar School of Education, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur)
ABSTRACT The purpose of introducing Geography had, to some extent at least, its root in trade and business interests. It was partly the value of Geography for surveying and mapping of the resources, which gave imperial rulers its precise image and substance as a tool fundamental for the statecraft. This concept of using Geographic knowledge as a tool was conceived and nourished in European environment with Napoleon founding the first Chair in Sorbonne. Since the later half of the nineteenth century, Geography became a regular part of the elementary school curriculum in Britain and came in the purview of the secondary schools in 1902. In India, the British introduced Geography in schools along with arithmetic and English. This initiative became more serious with the establishment of the first Geography department in the Punjab university in 1928.

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