Six physical geography textbooks published between 1901 and 2002 were qualitatively analysed for content and compared to the National Geography Standards. General relationships to dominant approaches to geography, content, and pedagogy of these textbooks were analysed. These textbooks reflect dominant approaches to geography at the time they were…

Over the last 20 years policy makers have introduced a number of measures intended to improve the quality of education provided by state secondary schools in England. The survey reported here, undertaken at the request of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), offers an insight into geography education in such schools with particular…

Recent events in England and Wales would suggest that geography teachers need to re-engage with their subject matter to enable them to improve how they teach the geography. However, this requires a detailed understanding of how teachers use their subject knowledge. This paper outlines how two geography teachers experience tension between how they…

The Sanders housing lawsuit in Pennsylvania provides a case study of how to incorporate current events into the teaching of cartography or population geography at the high school or college level. Settlement of the Sanders case resulted in the release of information about the segregation of public housing by race in the Pittsburgh area. The issues…

Women throughout the world are demonstrating solidarity and activism on behalf of environmental issues. A World Regional Geography course is an appropriate setting for discussing some of the contributions women make to protect the environment. Using case studies that draw upon women's environmental activism in four world cultures, this article…

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the field project and the field experiences of 60 undergraduates in a lower level geography course. Cumulative based learning was the main teaching technique. The Eisenhower Center, the Dickinson County Historical Society Museum, and Old Abilene Town, a renovated/reconstructed frontier town, were selected…

This paper identifies some personal priorities in teaching economic geography. The author places the economy relationally regarding social, cultural and political dimensions of life; she clarifies different modes of geographic inquiry-geographies; and she taps the breadth of economic geography by including a wide range of substantive topics. She…

This article makes an argument for an economic geographical pedagogy that is post-disciplinary, emphasizing non-hierarchical, student-based knowledge, disciplinary interconnectedness, epistemological plurality, and material embodiedness and embeddedness. Key to this conception of economic geographical pedagogy are recent writings of Timothy…

One of the most characteristic features of geolinguistic study is the recourse to maps and diagrams; authors often supplement words with illustrations of patterns and processes stemming from the spoken word. This transposition of word and image is significant, for maps and diagrams are a sign of language. The concerns of the linguistic map maker…

How aerial photographs are used in geography instruction in Great Britain. (HB)

This textbook is an illustrated reader with selections on Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America. It is intended to supplement ordinary school reading books, as well as reinforce instruction in other subjects with useful information and choice selections from the best literature. Teachers and parents are advised to insist upon having…

Describing shifting priorities and assessing its accomplishments, this interview reviews how the Association of American Geographers has approached its educational mission in higher education over the last 25 years, (JDH)

This textbook covers geometry and trigonometry with addition of a fuller explanation of rectangular surveying, as well as a more particular explanation of the use of natural sines. The book's primary goal is teaching common field surveying. This edition adds practical matter, as well as the only table of natural tangents ever published in this…

This textbook presents a course in surveying. A variety of problems are introduced, adapted to the cases most likely to occur in practice. Background in algebra and geometry are recommended.

Controversies about the exact nature of geography are noted. It is assented that geography is not a discipline, but a synthesis of several; an interdisciplinary study using and synthesizing a variety of dates within an areal, systematic or thematic idiom." (NH)