British Pioneers in Geography
Author: Edmund William Gilbert
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
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British Geography 1918-1945
Author: Robert W. Steel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987-10-08
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780521247900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe foundations of modern British geography are traced to follow its evolution from its fragile institutional origins through its important role in national planning during post war reconstruction.
Geography in British Schools, 1885-2000
Author: Rex Walford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-23
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1134722893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history charts how geography rose to popularity on a tide of imperial enthusiasms in Victorian time and made its way into many elementary schools in the latter half of the 19th century. Many geography lessons were not dominated by the rote-learning of "capes and bays" and some of the pioneers of the subject led the way in the use of models, visual aids and "object lessons" in schools. The book explores Scott Keltie's report of 1886 as a catalyst for development. Despite the founding of the Geographical Association in 1893, the subject needed a series of concerted political campaigns in the early 20th centry to establish itself in the secondary sector. The growth of the regional approach, field-work and of sample studies expanded the subject between the world wars, before a major conceptual revolution invigorated and challenged teachers of the subject in the post-war period.
Geography in British Schools, 1850-2000
Author: Rex Walford
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780713040272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo book has yet been published that has attempted to cover the history of geography as a school subject. Yet the story of the growth of this subject - a major player in the league table of student preferences and examination entries - is woven deep into the social history of the nation, as well as being studded with colourful personalities.
Geography in British Schools, 1850-2000
Author: Rex Walford
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780713002072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history of geography as a major subject in the British school curriculum in the past 150 years deconstructs some of the myths which have grown up around school geography's Victorian image, considers geography's struggle for examination recognition in the early years of the 20th century, and describes periods of different emphases in the field. It analyzes the revolution in teaching geography in the 1960s and 1970s, and examines the effect of the National Curriculum. Includes bandw historical photos. Walford taught postgraduate courses for geography teachers at the University of Cambridge from 1973 to 1999. Distributed by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.
A Century of British Geography
Author: Ron Johnston
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-09-11
Total Pages: 722
ISBN-13: 9780197262863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world we live in is fundamental to an understanding of its problems and concerns. Never before has such an ambitious and wide-ranging review been attempted, and never before has it been done with so much knowledge and passion. The principal themes covered in this volume are those of environment, place and space, and the applied geography of map-making and planning. The volume also addresses specific issues such as disease, urbanization, regional viability, and ethics and social problems. This lively and accessible work offers many insights into the minds and practices of today's geographers.
Recent Geographical Literature, Maps, and Photographs Added to the Society's Collection
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 740
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Author: Ron Johnston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 1134065876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the relationship between human and physical geography. All chapters updated in the new edition to reflect new literature and changes in the discipline. Chapter One systematically considers representations of geographical thought. The closing chapter develops an explicit argument about what has made human geography distinctive. Draws on a wide reading of the geographical literature produced during a fifty-year period characterised by both growth in the number of academic geographers and substantial shifts in conceptions of the discipline's scientific rationale
Geographers
Author: T. W. Freeman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1474230725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. Each study includes a select bibliography and brief chronology. The work includes a general index and a cumulative index of geographers listed in volumes published to date.
Uprooting Geographic Thoughts in India
Author: Rana Singh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2009-03-26
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 144380794X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder the cultural turn and transformation the new intellectual discourses started in the 21st century to search the roots, have cross-cultural comparison and to see how the old traditions be used in the contemporary worldviews. This book is the first attempt dealing with roots of Indian geographical thoughts since its beginning in 1920. It emphasises identity of India and Indianness and consciousness among dweller geographers in India, development and status of geography and its recent trends, Gaia theory and Indian context in search of cosmic integrity, ecospirituality and global message towards interrelatedness, Hindu pilgrimages and its contemporary importance, Mahatma Gandhi and his contribution to sustainable environmental development for global peace and humanism, and new vision to see meeting grounds of the East and the West on the line of reconstruction and reconciliation in the globalising world. These essays are selective and thematic, therefore overall view of comprehensiveness is lacking. But this book is not the end; obviously it is a beginning as already other volumes in sequence and continuity are in progress. At the end, the lead essays, representative of the three eras, by Spate (1956), Sopher (1973), and Mukerji (1992) are reprinted with a view to assessing the relevance of their challenging message even today.
