Fourteen education students from Southeast Asia evaluated seven unspecified tenth grade social studies texts from five Pennsylvania schools, and made comments on the accuracy of presentations of Southeast Asian culture, customs, history, and topography. (Author/SJL)

Traces development of cultural geography in the United States during the 20th century. Topics discussed include culture, cultural traditions, and culture regions; aspects of culture systems; the relationship of population growth to technological advancement; and research concerns of cultural geographers. (Author/DB)

Describes a service established at an adult education college in rural England which provides individually oriented correspondence programs of home study supported by personal tutorials. The most unexpected feature of the service's development is the extent to which students from urban locations have chosen to follow individually supervised…

A four-foil, 69-item multiple-choice test was administered in 1974 to 32 preservice elementary teachers, 60 inservice teachers, and 479 sixth-grade students. Results showed from 30 to 50 percent of the teachers had problems with test items in the same skill areas which the students had problems, indicating that student performance of map and globe…

Describes recent reforms in elementary and secondary geography curricula, including increased emphasis on (1) concepts and patterns of physical and economic geography, and (2) geographic research methods. Also reviews student performance by grade level and suggests further improvement in the curriculum and in teaching. (AV)

Presents solutions to problems which beset geography instruction on all levels, including replacement of courses based on conventional geographical skills with courses providing a framework for citizenship and vocational training. Available from: Faculty of Modern Studies, Oxford Polytechnic, Headington, Oxford, OX3 OBP, England, United Kingdom.…

States that World War I served as a catalyst for rapid change in the teaching of history, geography, and current events. Indicators of change were found in professional journals such as THE HISTORY TEACHER'S MAGAZINE. Concludes that post-World War I social studies was more like our current curriculum than that which existed prior to the War.…

Among college undergraduates, males consistently outperform females on tests of geographical knowledge. That difference may be caused by the fact that women have had less active control over distances and directions traveled in their lives, and thus less interest in learning about them. This may change as women's roles in society change. (PS)

Five ideas for class activities at different levels and for various audiences are described. They include a card game, exercises on French wines, a personalities game, and study of a Baudelaire poem. (MSE)

Stresses that books used to teach about a specific subject area (e.g. history, science, geography) should be judged not only for their focus on the subject but also for their literary quality. (SRT)

Consists of 12 articles that provide practical lesson and activity ideas for teaching about global issues in the context of home economics. Emphasis is placed on activities for World Food Day, school displays with a global approach, and outreach programs involving food, clothing, and books. (CH)

One professor's efforts to bring high school teachers and college geography faculty together, strengthen high school geography teaching, and increase interest in the study of geography has spawned a network of alliances covering 20 states and sponsored by the National Geographic Society. (MSE)

Suggests that there is a close relationship between deformation in the western United States and the large-scale motions of tectonic plates. Introduces very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) as one of the space-geodetic techniques, vector addition of the VLBI data and geological data, and a new geodetic network. (YP)

Few books have been written and little information is known about Black populations of the southern Appalachian mountains. This article describes the cultural and settlement patterns of these people and traces their historical development. Occupational changes and the effects of urbanization are presented. (VM)

Class activity ideas presented include: the use of world records to teach superlatives; a unit on a new French city; storywriting; and creation of crossword puzzles to teach vocabulary and test comprehension. (MSE)