The map skills development component of an elementary level social science reading curriculum project was tested for effects. Analyses show significant mean score differences in favor of the experimental group of the post measurement. (Author/JB)

Poses the question of whether or not there is a United Europe. (DS)

Provides an overview of Canadian poverty in its biological, geographical, ecological, demographic, structural, psychological, cultural, and social dimensions, and suggests relevant references. (JM)

Stresses that a language teacher is also a culture teacher" and that teacher-education programs need to incorporate training in the latter area. (WB)

City College of New York experiments with a course in human ecology, considering political, economic, social, psychological, and scientific implications of man's role in the environment. Current issues, problem research, and action projects are used in the three-part interdisciplinary approach. (BL)

A conceptual geography unit was taught in 17 kindergarten classes to 307 students. Multivaried analysis of pretest/post-test achievement showed that race and socioeconomic status were significant pupil variables while sex and pretest score were not. Teacher experience with the unit and teacher perception of appropriateness were significant while…

Does cognitive style differentially influence performance under either an expository or discovery method of instruction? The authors found that neither cognitive style or methods of instruction had an overall effect on the acquisition of knowledge. (Editor)

Introductory college physical geography courses can be made more relevant by starting with environmental problems of social concern and going on pertinent subject matter to explain the problems. The implications of a problems approach to teaching-learning processes are also discussed. (NH)

Provides guidelines for preparing a unit on African geography, specifically physical landscape, using inquiry techniques. (DB)

Eight strengths which offer the discipline of geography potential for sustained growth and development are discussed. For example, geographic training can develop skills that have numerous vocational applications. (RM)

There is a pressing need for increased attention to geographic education in Arizona. Geocentrism on the part of students, particularly Native Americans from isolated areas, presents learning difficulty. Teachers of social science and humanities in Arizona public schools and reservation schools should be required to complete courses in geographic…

People in the developing world worry about the shrinkage of forests and the scarcity of firewood. An international team of geographers assessed desertification and prepared a map. Students can analyze a simplified map and answer questions that will help them understand desertification. (AM)