Reports results of a study designed to assess the effects of organizing a physical geography course according to the General Theory of Systems in order to help students think about the environment in more holistic terms. Concludes that more committed, achievement-oriented students did better under this approach, while those with a nonacademic…

Presents summary findings of survey of employers' attitudes toward geography graduates from universities in Britain. Concludes that geography departments should encourage broader "vocational" education and involvement of their undergraduates and need to introduce a wider range of teaching methods. Suggests that this is unlikely to happen…

Presents (1) background information explaining how paleontologists solve dinosaur mysteries using fossil clues; (2) activities on this topic; and (3) ready-to-copy student materials. Each activity includes an objective, list of materials needed, recommended age level(s), subject area(s), and instructional strategies. (JN)

Maintains that the cultural tradition of the Midwest is rooted in the recollections of the small-town origins of contemporary city dwellers. Reviews the perceptions of small-town living provided by nine autobiographies written between 1900 and 1940. (JDH)

Offers explanations on the origin of the North American Atlantic continental margin. Provides an analysis and illustrations of structural and strategraphic elements of cross sections of the Atlantic continental margin. Also explains the operations and applications of seismic-relection profiles in studying ocean areas. (ML)

So that geographers may recognize their achievements and comprehend the present as evolution from the past, there is a need for a history of geography. Study of the past provides a sense of accomplishment. Examples of how geographers are attempting to record their past are provided. (RM)

Describes a framework for introducing micro-based computer cartography into college-level courses. The discussion centers on hardware, software, practical considerations, and snags. (RM)

Provides samples of photographs from the book "The Making of a Continent." Photographs, representing a geological feature on the earth's surface, are accompanied by diagrams illustrating how the features were formed. (JN)

Geography enrollments are down, and geography is in trouble because it has been slow to respond to the new environment of higher education. Important trends in higher education are identified, and ways geographers can respond positively to the trends are discussed. (RM)

A study of 97 new college geography teachers' preparation and adjustment to the profession revealed that they had a certain level of idealism and conservatism in what they tried to accomplish as teachers, and that their ability to achieve their educational goals was limited and varied from class to class. (MSE)

A description of the growth and status of environmental education in West Germany includes charts of the availability of specific environmental education programs and related courses at each institution and of teacher education programs. (MSE)

This article draws upon some implementation models, namely the Rogers and Shoemaker (1971) model and Hall's (1973) concerns-based model, to explain contextual and process factors associated with the implementation of a high school geography syllabus in one Australian state. (Author/CT)

A noncompensatory selection model for choosing graduate students correctly predicted 61 percent of the successful students. The compensatory model was able to correctly predict only 21 percent of those who succeeded. (RM)

If geography faces a crisis today, it is an inner crisis that has come from listening to those who advocate aggrandizement rather than accomplishment. Geographers should devote no more time than necessary to the business of selling themselves and, instead, produce the kind of scholarship that commands attention. (RM)

Study showed that university students respond with greater interest to lecture titles that clearly indicate the nature of the ideas to be communicated rather than to those that contain the specialized expressions indigenous to academia. (RM)