In this study, I have researched the method of concept learning in geography education. Geography concepts is classified with the concrete and abstract concept. Mostly, physical geography concepts are a concrete concept which is defined by observation...
In this study, I have researched the method of concept learning in geography education. Geography concepts is classified with the concrete and abstract concept. Mostly, physical geography concepts are a concrete concept which is defined by observation, and human geography concepts are a abstract concept which is defined by definition. Also, when I have reviewed concept learning models, it is classified with the attribute model based critical attribute and the prototype model based typical example. Then I have developed the model of geography concept learning through using this results. And this model has been applied in physical geography concept and that applied in human geography concept. And then these model has been applied to experiment groups. As result, the attribute model has more effective than the prototype model in a concrete geography concepts of middle school, and the prototype model has more effective than the attribute model of high school. So when we teach physical geography concepts in middle school, I think that it is necessary to use a critical attribute, and when we teach human geography concepts in high school, it is necessary to use typical examples. Therefore I think that it is important to practise geography teaching according to characteristics of geography concepts.