Evaluating the Second-Year Secondary School Geography Curriculum Content in Light of the Sustainable Development Fields

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Education, Minia University

Abstract

The current research aimed at evaluating the second-year secondary school geography curriculum content in light of the sustainable development fields. For this purpose, the descriptive research approach was followed. The research tools and materials consisted of preparing a list of sustainable development fields that should be available in the content of the second-year secondary school geography curriculum and presenting it to a group of specialists in geography curricula and teaching methodology. Research results revealed a weakness in the level of including the sustainable development fields in the second-year secondary school geography curriculum content, where the percentage of the environmental field was (55.32%), the social field was (45.25%), and the economic field was (50.60%) and these percentages were less than the acceptable level (75%). The research recommended the need to develop the second-year secondary school geography curriculum in light of these results and include these fields to achieve its goals goals.

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