Resumen Desde fines del siglo XX la discusion sobre la renovacion de la Educacion Geografica es un tema reiterativo. Se exige que la ensenanza de la geografia desarrolle los procesos pedagogicos y didacticos para explicar las condiciones ambientales, geograficas y sociales de la comunidad y entender la complejidad del mundo contemporaneo. Alli ha sido inquietud la dificultad formativa ocasionada por la vigencia de los fundamentos de la geografia descriptiva y de la pedagogia tradicional, en la actividad cotidiana del aula escolar. Esta problematica determino realizar una revision bibliografica y estructurar un planteamiento que analiza la situacion de la actual Educacion Geografica, los desafios que enfrenta, la exigencia de facilitar la accion pedagogica desde la integracion escuela-comunidad, con el objeto explicar su realidad geografica. Concluye que la ensenanza de la geografia debe atender la complicada situacion geografica comunitaria y gestionar una labor formativa que armonice los propositos de la escuela y las dificultades del lugar, acorde con los desafios del mundo globalizado y en procura de la formacion integral de los ciudadanos. Abstract Since the late twentieth century, the debate on the renewal of Geographic Education is a recurring theme. It requires the teaching of geography develops educational and teaching processes to explain the environmental, geographical and social conditions of the community and understand the complexity of the contemporary world. There has been concern formative difficulties caused by the force of the fundamentals of descriptive geography and traditional pedagogy in everyday classroom activity. This problem determined to perform a structured literature review and an approach that analyzes the current situation of Geographic Education, the challenges faced, the requirement to provide the pedagogical action from the school-community integration, in order to explain their geographical reality. Concludes that teaching must address the complicated geography community geography and manage a training work to harmonize the purposes of the school and the difficulties of the place, commensurate with the challenges of the globalized world and seeks the integral formation of citizens
