A. offers 11 reasons why he believes that curriculum guidelines are needed for geography programs in American colleges and universities. Describes the potential benefits and offers a plan of action. - (DWG)
Change in South Africa offers challenges to geographers. Suggestions are offered for developing the discipline's capabilities for assisting the changes. - (AJC)
Most of the mentioned classifications and especially those that cover large areas are based on the personal knowledge of their authors, who do not offer any criteria for their classification. In most of them solely cultural and technological
characteristics of agriculture, such as land and/or crop rotation systems and agricultural implements, are used as basic criteria, representing however only one side of agriculture. The divisive approach dominates and no quantitative bases are offered
At the University of the North a formative exercise tested students' familiarity with the relative locations of the provinces of South Africa. The results indicated unacceptable levels of ignorance of the locations. Remedial suggestions are offered
and a warning offered concerning the assumption of basic spatial information in geographical education. - (AJC)
In this study the possibilities of development of health resorts, both places and areas are discussed those including favourable bioclimatic conditions, offering mineral waters and organic matters deposits. The attached map 1 presents bioclimatic
regions of Poland. Map 2 indicates actual health resorts. The attention is drawn to the fact that 12 voivodships offer no recreational-curative localities. - (DG)
How can we use photographs, video and other visual material to support students’ learning processes? The article offers some relections on the role played by images in the teaching of geography and offers some examples on how to use images
Previous geomorphic studies of urbanization primarily consist of case studies documenting changes in hydrologic response and channel morphology, but offer limited predictive capabilities. However, channel-stability assessment methods have been
developed to distinguish between stable and degrading or aggrading sites. Such measures allow possible prediction of urbanization impacts and offer possibilities of better preservation tools.
Geography in Switzerland=La géographie en Suisse. (A collection of papers offered to the 24th International Geographical Congress, Tokyo, Japan, August 1980=. Un recueil d'articles présentés au 24Congrès International de Géographie, Tokyo, Japon
Explains four major ways in which geographers study the environment. Offers comments on the future role of geography in environmental education as it relates to standards. - (DWG)
Ideas about how to teach university-level geography students to use the library by offering concrete assignments on critical evaluation of written materials; journal indexes and periodical literature; government documents; annotated bibliographies
Development, objectives, and impacts of the « Teaching Geography Project », a program begun in 1988 funded by the National Geographic Society to provide one-day workshops across the USA. Guidance is offered for geography workshop planners
Between 186 B.C. and A.D. 1987, landslides in China have illed more than 250 000 people. Besides an historical summary of these catastrophes, the A. offers a list of measures for reducing the landslide hazard. - (DWG)
Feminist approaches to geography have become increasingly sophisticated. Reflections on and a vision for feminist geography at the University of Waikato offers an avenue for other geographers to begin thinking through development in their own