The Scope Of School Geography PDF Download

Excerpt from The Scope of School Geography Collaboration may have its dangers; but it affords opportunity, of which we have availed ourselves fully, for criticism and argument. Perhaps collaborators feel more free to press their own views than he who merely confers the favour of reading an author's proof. And we may also admit that the subject of the book offers openings for alternative opinions, although we have succeeded in reconciling our own. For geography is a big subject, so big that no man may ever know the whole of it; and we are concerned here not to lay down the boundaries of the whole of it, but only those of an inner circle, to wit, its application to secondary school teaching. Even though our task goes no farther than that, it is necessary to endeavour to fulfil diverse objects. We have, as we take it, firstly to give some indication of the scope of a geography course which seeks to prepare the pupil merely for safe passage through the school certificate examination, and is severely limited in time to two periods per week. But secondly, we are now emboldened to believe that the school certificate is not the be-all and end-all of geography-teaching in secondary schools. Geography has become, or is rapidly becoming, a well-established university subject. But as soon as the school certificate stage is passed, if not even before, geography announces itself as an elastic subject - one in which the course of study may be deliberately led in this direction or that, whether the physical, or the mathematical, or the economic, or the historical elements be chosen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.