Even before it became a common place to assume that "the Eskimo have a hundred words for snow" the languages of hunting and gathering people have played an important role in debates about linguistic relativity concerning geographical ontologies. Evidence from languages of hunter-gatherers has been used in radical relativist challenges to…

"Mashup" is a new technology term used to describe a web application that combines data or technology from several different sources. You can apply this concept in your classroom by having students create their own mashup maps. Google Maps provides you with the simple tools, map databases, and online help you'll need to quickly master this…

This article first attempts to supply a definition of peoples' identity as scientific as possible and takes a close look at the conditions that make creativity possible. The study of science history clearly indicates that the periods of great creativity were those when communication was sufficient to make remote partners stimulate one another but…

Many models have hypothesized that multimedia comprehension requires the concurrent processing of verbal and visuospatial information by limited information processing systems. However, in spite of the emphasis devoted to the concurrent processing of verbal and visuospatial information, little research has so far investigated the specific role…

This study set out to better understand the changing links between geography and citizenship. Content analysis was conducted on eighteen high school world geography textbooks and state/national standards. Interviews were conducted with teachers and textbook authors. Five significant changes were noted: decline of national orientation and a greater…

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)

A snow-covered landscape as viewed from Landsat offers some intriguing possibilities for interpretation of various earth features that are difficult to discern on imagery taken at other times of the year. This Landsat image can be analyzed and studied by college- level geography students. (AM)

Discusses Saussures's "Cours de linguistique generale," which was published in 1916, and devotes specific attention to the significance of Part VI, which is devoted to linguistic geography. (16 references) (Author/VWL)

Virtual communities of practice (VCoP) have been advocated for some time as a promising means of taking professional development to teachers in widely distributed locations. However, geography, and indeed education literature as a whole, contains very few examples where this has been achieved. This paper reports on two VCoP professional…