The Teaching of Geography
The Teaching of Geography
Paperback
Originally published in 1967 as the fifth edition of a 1935 original, this book addresses the teaching of various kinds of geography to secondary school students. The text includes suggestions for classwork and possible field courses, in order that geography may have 'its maximum educational effect'. This book will be of value to anyone interested in the history of geography education in Britain.
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No date availablePaperback
9781107623163
426 pages
216 × 140 × 24 mm
0.54kg
Table of Contents
- Author's preface
- 1. The scope of school geography
- 2. Descriptive geography
- 3. Transition geography
- 4. Transition geography (continued)
- 5. Systematic and argumentative geography
- 6. Argumentative geography (continued)
- 7. A conspectus of the geography scheme
- 8. Geographical explanation
- 9. Regional and economic geography
- 10. Quantitative work
- 11. History and geography
- 12. Practical exercises and individual work
- 13. The use of the globe
- 14. Contour lines
- 15. Seeing gold
- 16. Outdoor and holiday work
- 17. Test papers and examinations
- 18. Selected examination questions
- 19. The geography rooms
- 20. Apparatus
- 21. Correlation
- 22. The science of geography. A human science
- Index.
