IGU-CGE Conference
Welcome to Stellenbosch,
Western Cape,
South Africa!
International Geographical Union's Commission of Geographical Education's Conference - October 2025
'Geographical Learning Today for Tomorrow'
Conference Theme and Vision
We are very excited to welcome all delegates to Stellenbosch for the International Geographical Union's Commission of Geographical Education's Conference this October. The conference theme, 'Geographical Learning Today for Tomorrow', seeks to foster dialogue and collaboration across diverse geographical contexts, highlighting locally responsive but globally relevant transformative pedagogies, technology integration, and curriculum innovation that address the challenges of our contemporary world from a geographical perspective.
Call for Submissions
We encourage submissions that explore comparative studies, innovative pedagogies, and sustainable practices at all levels of education, including early childhood education, primary, secondary, and tertiary education, as well as teacher education. We invite contributions that may result in transformative geographical and environmental education that help young people, teachers, and teacher educators better understand their roles and responsibilities as citizens of a world characterised by rapid change, risk and vulnerability.
Programme
The programme will be finalised once the abstracts submitted for poster and academic paper presentations have been reviewed.
- ✓Two distinguished Key Note Speakers.
- ✓A comprehensive array of workshops.
- ✓During the conference, you will have an opportunity to browse our exhibition space and meet some of our conference sponsors, partners and also see some South African geographical research highlighted.
- ✓A delightful Conference Dinner at the Spier Wine Estate.
- ✓Optional fieldtrips (at your own expense). For those who have booked trips, we will communicate the detailed arrangements to you very soon. If you do not manage to book a fieldtrip, you may be interested in some of the leisure tours available by our various tourism bodies.
- ✓Part of our goal with this international conference is to engage a broad range of people across South Africa and with geography as a discipline.
We're looking forward to giving you a warm African welcome in October 2025.
Organizing Committee
Clinton van der Merwe, Di Wilmot, Paul Goldschagg and the wider LOC