This statement, prapared by the Council of the Australian Geography Teachers Association to assist geography teachers, curriculum planners, and educational administrators, describes geography as a field of study focusing on the environment through the use of spatial concepts and establishes the usefulness and importance of geography in school…

First part of a continuing series on the teaching of geography. (DS)

First part of a continuing series. (DS)

Part 2 of a three-part series; part 1 appeared in the April 1972 issue. (DS)

Part 2 of a three-part series; part 1 appeared in the April 1972 issue. (DS)

Paper presented to the Commission on Geography in Education, Quebec, Canada, August 1972. (DS)

Paper presented to the Commission on Geography in Education, Quebec, Canada, August 1972. (DS)

Part 3 of a three-part series; part 1 appeared in the April 1972 issue, and part 2 in the August 1972 issue. (DS)

A matrix, developed for the purpose of generating research interest in geographic learning, was formed by imposing three categories of cognitive behavior (perception, language, and thinking) upon four geographic concepts (spatial, area studies, land/man, and earth science). (Author/JB)

The article focuses upon an experiment in a university class designed specifically to teach geographic concepts. Attention is placed on the degree certain concepts can be learned and some factors which affect the degree of learning. (Author)

Summarizes the interrelationships of soil, topography, climate, organisms, and time in the Sydney (Australia) Basin, with particular reference to the effects of human intervention. (AL)