Author(s)

Saidong Lv, Yujun Pan, Mingdong Luo And John Buchanan

Corresponding Author

Saidong Lv

ABSTRACT

Geography of education is an interdisciplinary subject between education and geography. Although the related research of geography of education started earlier, the development of the entire discipline is relatively slow. In recent years, more and more domestic and foreign scholars have realized that the influence of geographical factors on education is objective and its role is enormous. Therefore, many scholars began to research in geography of education, which played a role in promoting its development. In the process of reading a large number of documents, it was found that most scholars emphasized that “space”, “time” and “scale” are some key points that cannot be ignored in the research of geography of education. On the basis of summarizing previous researches on geography of education, it is recognized that the research object of Geography of Education is the basis of theoretical research and empirical research of it. From the perspective of the research object of geography of education, this article clearly defines the significance and value of the research object of geography of education, discusses the connection and synergy between two different disciplines of geography and education, and sorts out different views of different scholars at home and abroad on geography of education. Finally, it is concluded that the research object of geography of education is the educational geographic complex and its spatial structure and temporal structure are systematically elaborated.

KEYWORDS

Geography of education, spatial structure, temporal structure