Ar kursime geografijos kanoną? – Tarp globalaus ir lokalaus naratyvo / Will We Create a Geography Canon? Between Global and Local Narrative

In the second half of the last century, the issue of canon became relevant, especially in the fields of culture and education. The society of the developed countries has become concerned with the deteriorating achievements of students. Education specialists have started talking about the growing generation which is going to be less educated as compared with their parents. A critical look has been taken at the liberal education programmes. The need for certain underlying values, humanistic ideas, fundamental research theories to be relied on by the education of the young generation has been resumed. The article analyses a discourse of the concept of canon in humanitarian and education sciences. A correlation between the concepts of tradition, classics and canon are discussed. Subject to the researches of musicologists, a didactic model of the structure of canon is composed. A spatial hierarchy of canon in teaching geography is presented. A critical look is taken at inter- and trans-disciplinary integration of subjects (trans-disciplinary axiology) which is facing serious ontological, gnoseological and social issues.Keywords: canon, tradition, classics, didactics, geography education, geography canon.