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Whilst, across Australia, various topic names
are SOSE – Study of Society and its Environment, for the purposes
of developing appropriate material for our present purpose, can be
taken
to refer
broadly to geography and history.
Both of these have clear and fruitful relevance to the topic of
geographic place names. History, for example, has the same direct and
indirect associations that were earlier noted in considering English:
directly there is investigation of the history of the name of a place – the
name of the place where the student lives obviously, town or street.
Why was it given that name? Who was that person or other reason?
Indirectly, many place names across Australia derive from remembrance
of historical events and personages. But whilst the street commemorates,
what is being remembered is largely forgotten. How many secondary school
students know that Inkerman was a battle in the Crimea, or Catchpole
a famous footballer?
Setting challenges to find place names – perhaps a number to
solve a puzzle, and all to be located by map references – has
an obvious value in the study of geography |
