The chapter explores the nature of geography as a school subject. It reviews the five aims of the Australian Curriculum: Geography, as these are a guide for teachers in thinking about their objectives in teaching. It then discusses geography’s ways of thinking, which are based on a set of concepts that underpin the curriculum and make it distinctively geographical through the ways in which they view the world, the issues they identify as significant, and the questions, methods of analysis, explanations and criteria for evaluation they generate. These concepts are place, space, environment, interconnection, scale, change and sustainability, and they are unpacked and explained in this chapter.
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