The International system of units (SI) is here described, together with historical background and precise instructions on SI practice. American students normally still do not learn them in school. - (DWG)
A landscape painting by a nineteenth century American painter creates a template of questions and answers that relate geography and art and how that combination might be taught in schools. - (DWG)
Comments on the roots of political geography, its decline and rebirth, and how this subfield is relevant to teaching geography in Americanschools. - (DWG)
Updating of the geographic alliance movement to restore geography in Americanschools| thirteen states now have these alliances in which the National Geographic Society has played a crucial role. - (DWG)
The A. criticizes the content of the geography that has gained favor in many American states since the 1970s, supported by the National Geographic Society and endorsed by the National Council for Geographic Education. The A. predicts that geography
will not survive as a school subject unless it is recast toward understanding the real world in wich people live, rather than around abstract concepts. Four published responses to this article were included in vol. 89, no 2 (1990), pp. 84-87 of the same journal
Americanschool ; Cultivated plants ; Cultural studies ; Diffusion ; Fauna ; Geographic school ; History of geography ; Language ; Rural landscape
The A. first went to Berkeley as a post-doctoral research fellow in 1955. He reflects on the ethos of the Berkeley School, the vision of its principal architect, and the influence of both on his own work over 40 years. He proposes to expand
Americanschool ; British school ; Concept ; Epistemology ; Geographic school ; Geographical knowkedge ; Geographical space ; Geographical thought
This Handbook is a critical inquiry into how Geography as a field of knowledge has been produced, re-produced and re-imagined, largely within the Western traditions of the Anglo-American world. Comprising 46 specially commissioned chapters by 48
Americanschool ; Epistemology ; Historical geography ; Methodology ; Practice of geography
geography at the 2000 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. The first five essays were developed from papers presented there by young scholars. The second set of five essays derive from panelists comments. - (SLD)
Three 20th century revolutions in American geography
Americanschool ; Epistemology ; History of geography ; Man-environment relations ; Practice of geography ; Research ; Social theory ; Spatial analysis ; Spatial differentiation ; Twentieth Century ; United States of America
Americanschool ; British school ; Economic geography ; Economic growth ; Economies of scale ; Geographical thought ; Location ; Model ; Spatial economy
This Handbook illustrates the significance of thinking the ’economy’ and the ‘economic’ geographically, largely within the Western traditions of the Anglo-American world. Comprising 25 specially commissioned chapters by 30 authors based in the UK
Race, space, and struggles for mobility. Transportation impacts on African Americans in Oakland and the East Bay
Using an environmental racism framework, this article analyses transportation impacts on African Americans in Oakland and the East Bay while focusing on race, space and struggles for mobility, from the 1970’s onwards. It shows that the new regional
transportation policies, like those challenged by a 2005 civil rights lawsuit, favored the mobility needs of more affluent suburbanites over those of African American East Bay bus riders. It concludes that they are layered onto an existing racialized geography
[b1] School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and School of Sustainability, Arizona State Univ., Urban Affairs and Planning Program Virginia Tech, Tempe, Etats-Unis
Concept ; Cultural geography ; Cultural studies ; National school ; Subjectivity ; Theoretical geography ; Twentieth Century
objectivity to subjectivity. The biggest influence on the development of cultural geography had German, French and AmericanSchool. Since the 1980s views of the so-called ‘new’ cultural geography come to the forefront. - (IKR)
Americanschool ; History of geography ; Region ; Regional geography ; Twentieth Century
The true believers of every new school of thought that comes into vogue belittle those who do not tag along. Regional geography has been scorned by many theorists, yet it survives most of the isms claiming to have replaced it. Nevin Fenneman
Americanschool ; Fieldtrip ; French school ; Geographical knowkedge ; History of geography ; Man-environment relations ; Practice of geography ; Scientific expedition ; United States of America ; Years 1910-19