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Author : Roger M. Downs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Geography
ISBN : 1884136419
The second edition of the national geography standards for geography education.
Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788112538
Details the geography content standards, skills, & perspectives that illustrate what every student should know to be competent in geography. Clearly written & superbly illustrated, geography's content standards for grades K-4, 5-8, & 9-12 specify the essential knowledge, skills, & perspectives that students should have in order to be informed, effective, & responsible citizens. Color illustrations.
Author : Anthony R. De Souza,Roger M. Downs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Geography
ISBN : 0792227778
This booklet is both an executive summary of "Geography for Life: National Geography Standards 1994" and an introduction to geography as an essential part of every child's education, and as an integral part of the lives of all U.S. citizens. The publication is illustrated on every page with photographs, paintings, graphs, and maps. It defines the power of geography and its beauty as the seeing, understanding, and appreciating of the web of relationships among people, places, and environments. Understanding geography, the path to competency in geography, and the components of geography are discussed. The 18 National Geography Standards are grouped into 6 essential elements: (1) the world in spatial terms; (2) places and regions; (3) physical systems; (4) human systems; (5) environment and society; and (6) the uses of geography. The skills and standards of each element are outlined. Using the standards for places and regions for grades K-4, the booklet demonstrates how a geography standard works and explains what the different parts of the standard and its structure mean. Two imperatives drive the National Standards for Geography: (1) geographic understanding must be set into a process of lifelong learning; (2) geographic understanding must be set into life contexts like school, family, society, and occupation. (DK)
Author : Herbert Hatch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Physical geography
ISBN : WISC:89095933321
Author : Tsunesaburō Makiguchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015068803629
Author : Rediscovering Geography Committee,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309577625
As political, economic, and environmental issues increasingly spread across the globe, the science of geography is being rediscovered by scientists, policymakers, and educators alike. Geography has been made a core subject in U.S. schools, and scientists from a variety of disciplines are using analytical tools originally developed by geographers. Rediscovering Geography presents a broad overview of geography's renewed importance in a changing world. Through discussions and highlighted case studies, this book illustrates geography's impact on international trade, environmental change, population growth, information infrastructure, the condition of cities, the spread of AIDS, and much more. The committee examines some of the more significant tools for data collection, storage, analysis, and display, with examples of major contributions made by geographers. Rediscovering Geography provides a blueprint for the future of the discipline, recommending how to strengthen its intellectual and institutional foundation and meet the demand for geographic expertise among professionals and the public.
Author : Edmunds Valdemārs Bunkśe
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0801877229
"Offers a singularly courageous, personal account of learning how to pour the poetics of space into the art of life." -- Geografishe Annales B: Human Geography
Author : Robert N. Levine
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786722532
In this engaging and spirited book, eminent social psychologist Robert Levine asks us to explore a dimension of our experience that we take for granted—our perception of time. When we travel to a different country, or even a different city in the United States, we assume that a certain amount of cultural adjustment will be required, whether it's getting used to new food or negotiating a foreign language, adapting to a different standard of living or another currency. In fact, what contributes most to our sense of disorientation is having to adapt to another culture's sense of time.Levine, who has devoted his career to studying time and the pace of life, takes us on an enchanting tour of time through the ages and around the world. As he recounts his unique experiences with humor and deep insight, we travel with him to Brazil, where to be three hours late is perfectly acceptable, and to Japan, where he finds a sense of the long-term that is unheard of in the West. We visit communities in the United States and find that population size affects the pace of life—and even the pace of walking. We travel back in time to ancient Greece to examine early clocks and sundials, then move forward through the centuries to the beginnings of ”clock time” during the Industrial Revolution. We learn that there are places in the world today where people still live according to ”nature time,” the rhythm of the sun and the seasons, and ”event time,” the structuring of time around happenings(when you want to make a late appointment in Burundi, you say, ”I'll see you when the cows come in”).Levine raises some fascinating questions. How do we use our time? Are we being ruled by the clock? What is this doing to our cities? To our relationships? To our own bodies and psyches? Are there decisions we have made without conscious choice? Alternative tempos we might prefer? Perhaps, Levine argues, our goal should be to try to live in a ”multitemporal” society, one in which we learn to move back and forth among nature time, event time, and clock time. In other words, each of us must chart our own geography of time. If we can do that, we will have achieved temporal prosperity.
Author : Logathasan Tharmathurai
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459745032
A riveting story of a boy whose courage, perseverance, wit, and occasional burst of good luck guided him to the safety of his adopted home, Canada.
Author : Laurence Dudley Stamp
Publisher : London : Collins
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Medical
ISBN : WISC:89031260052
Author : Jennifer Wolch,Michael Dear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317819912
This book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life. Concentrating on the realm of social reproduction – gender, family, education, culture and tradition, race, ethnicity the contributors provide both an articulation of a theory of territory and reproduction and concrete empirical analyses of the evolution of social practices in particular places. At the core of the book’s contribution is the concept of society as a ‘time-space’ fabric, upon which are engraved the processes of political, economic and socio-cultural life. A second distinctive feature of the book is its substantive focus on the relation between territory and social practice. Thirdly, it represents a significant step in the redefinition of the research agenda in human geography.
Author : Mark V. Lomolino,Dov F. Sax,James H. Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226492370
Foundations of Biogeography provides facsimile reprints of seventy-two works that have proven fundamental to the development of the field. From classics by Georges-Louis LeClerc Compte de Buffon, Alexander von Humboldt, and Charles Darwin to equally seminal contributions by Ernst Mayr, Robert MacArthur, and E. O. Wilson, these papers and book excerpts not only reveal biogeography's historical roots but also trace its theoretical and empirical development. Selected and introduced by leading biogeographers, the articles cover a wide variety of taxonomic groups, habitat types, and geographic regions. Foundations of Biogeography will be an ideal introduction to the field for beginning students and an essential reference for established scholars of biogeography, ecology, and evolution. List of Contributors John C. Briggs, James H. Brown, Vicki A. Funk, Paul S. Giller, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Lawrence R. Heaney, Robert Hengeveld, Christopher J. Humphries, Mark V. Lomolino, Alan A. Myers, Brett R. Riddle, Dov F. Sax, Geerat J. Vermeij, Robert J. Whittaker
Author : Charlotte Mason
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This little book is confined to very simple “reading lessons upon the Form and Motions of the Earth, the Points of the Compass, the Meaning of a Map: Definitions.” The shape and motions of the earth are fundamental ideas—however difficult to grasp. Geography should be learned chiefly from maps, and the child should begin the study by learning “the meaning of map,” and how to use it. These subjects are well fitted to form an attractive introduction to the study of Geography: some of them should awaken the delightful interest which attaches in a child’s mind to that which is wonderful—incomprehensible. The Map lessons should lead to mechanical efforts, equally delightful. It is only when presented to the child for the first time in the form of stale knowledge and foregone conclusions that the facts taught in these lessons appear dry and repulsive to him. An effort is made in the following pages to treat the subject with the sort of sympathetic interest and freshness which attracts children to a new study. A short summary of the chief points in each reading lesson is given in the form of questions and answers. Easy verses, illustrative of the various subjects, are introduced, in order that the children may connect pleasant poetic fancies with the phenomena upon which “Geography” so much depends. It is hoped that these reading lessons may afford intelligent teaching, even in the hands of a young teacher. The first ideas of Geography—the lessons on “Place”—which should make the child observant of local geography, of the features of his own neighbourhood, its heights and hollows and level lands, its streams and ponds—should be conveyed viva voce. At this stage, a class-book cannot take the place of an intelligent teacher. Children should go through the book twice, and should, after the second reading, be able to answer any of the questions from memory. Charlotte M. Mason
Author : Wilfred M. McClay,Ted V. McAllister
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781594037184
Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of “place” and community. Appreciating place is essential for building the strong local communities that cultivate civic engagement, public leadership, and many of the other goods that contribute to a flourishing human life. Do we, in losing our places, lose the crucial basis for healthy and resilient individual identity, and for the cultivation of public virtues? For one can’t be a citizen without being a citizen of some place in particular; one isn’t a citizen of a motel. And if these dangers are real and present ones, are there ways that intelligent public policy can begin to address them constructively, by means of reasonable and democratic innovations that are likely to attract wide public support? Why Place Matters takes these concerns seriously, and its contributors seek to discover how, given the American people as they are, and American economic and social life as it now exists—and not as those things can be imagined to be in some utopian scheme—we can find means of fostering a richer and more sustaining way of life. The book is an anthology of essays exploring the contemporary problems of place and placelessness in American society. The book includes contributions from distinguished scholars and writers such as poet Dana Gioia (former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts), geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, urbanist Witold Rybczynski, architect Philip Bess, essayists Christine Rosen and Ari Schulman, philosopher Roger Scruton, transportation planner Gary Toth, and historians Russell Jacoby and Joseph Amato.
Author : Susan Tyler Hitchcock,John L. Esposito
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064745873
Here are the great figures-a creator god common to all, even the earliest tribal beliefs, and the teachers and prophets: Buddha, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad. Witness their teachings, along with the holy places where they flourished and the age-old observances that mark their traditions, from the Hindu ritual bathing in the Ganges before prayer to the Muslim hajj to Mecca, from the Jewish Passover seder to the Christian celebration of Christ's Resurrection. Here too are excerpts from each religion's texts, and evocative essays by eminent scholars on what their faith means to them and how it has shaped their view of life. In all, Geography of Religion reveals a vivid map of the paths we follow toward a higher truth. The Geography of Religion is an invitation to understand the great religions of the world.