IGCSE Geography Introduction: Knowledge & Understanding
"The content of this qualification has taken the following points into account, that coverage should touch the main subject areas:
(from the IGCSE Detailed Curriculum Outline)
- the natural environment, resources and production, population and settlement as well as the related topics of globalisation, human welfare and sustainability
- emphasis should be placed on the relationship between people and the environment
- geography should be recognised as a dynamic discipline in continuous change
- content should be specified in such a way that students can explore the geography of their own countries
- case studies are used to exemplify key ideas
- students are required to undertake fieldwork and other practical exercises to underpin knowledge and understanding, as well as to illustrate the key ideas
- the study of a range of themes which, taken together, involve work at different spatial scales (small (local), regional, national, international, global), in different parts of the world and in different types of environment
- the development of skills used in geographical enquiry, including fieldwork investigation"
(from the IGCSE Detailed Curriculum Outline)