La notion de belt dans la géographie scolaire française des États-Unis

Abstract

The word belt has appeared in 1911 in French geography of the United States as taught as school. The corn, wheat or cotton belt don’t exist anymore on American ground but the notion of belt is still important for those who teach American geography in French high schools. We will go over the history of belts in the French geography at school to demonstrate that they still exist at the beginning of the XXIst century because geography at school is a generalizing discipline that uses models and because a few French geographers only have been acting as links between academic geography of the United States and geography at school.

Keywords

• epistemology
• model
• geography at school
• regionalization/regionalisation
• belts