The purpose is to reflect on the teaching of geography in its daily school practice and the challenge of its innovation in the contemporary world, given the validity of nineteenthcentury foundations, both in the disciplinary and in the pedagogical. Geographical education and its daily work in the classroom are assumed as an object of analysis. In this regard, experts who have studied, from the mid-twentieth century, to the present, this situation, from their approaches, structure an explanation on the teaching of geography, their daily school practice, as the requirement of their innovation. It concludes by highlighting the need to train citizens, according to their geographical reality, with the support of scientific research of qualitativ...