Regarding digitalization and school geography

Abstract

Pervasive digitization in a school context does not simply imply a new way of teaching and learning, it is projected into the learning content and into the lesson. In this sense, what are the prospects for teaching geography? The relationship between digital technologies and geospatial relationships has long been debated, i.e. the new perception of spatial configurations, new spatial practices, new geographical distribution of digital infrastructures. Digitization, by itself, cannot project the development of modern geographical science and geography in the classroom, however, it offers opportunities for a critical approach to basic geographical concepts, to modern diagnostic assumptions in geographical science, to current geographical localizations. In this sense, the article systematizes and presents a critical analysis of the issue, more specifically – outlines the relationship between digitalization and school geography in Bulgaria in several steps: 1) outline the key characteristics of the digital common culture, considering the digital not as technical, but more soon as a social and cultural phenomenon, 2) outlining the relationship between digital and geography, referring to some current models and 3) outlining the projection of this relationship in the normative base and the information-methodological resource of school geography in the Bulgarian school. Based on the analysis, the need for additional and more in-depth studies on the issue is proven.