Having been an active member of the international geographical education community for more than 20 years, I have had the chance to observe changes and developments in a large range of countries. I have participated in the framing of international policy documents such as the International Charter of Geographical Education (Haubrich, 1994) and conducted international surveys of the state of geographical education in countries around the world (Gerber, 2003). Having had some time to reflect on the developments over the past century, and the current spate of changes that are being promoted in different regions around the globe, I have concluded that we, the geographical educators in different countries, have laboured under governmental and bureaucratic education policies and regulations to promote geographical education programs that fit these policies and regulations instead of promoting a definite internationalised geographical education for our planet and the people who inhabit it.
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