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My reading of the message was that the burning issue, which must be attended to, is the fact of the reduction of geography in school teaching. Therefore the important thing to do was to counter this trend. I am horrified to think that any geography academics could seriously be suggesting that less should be taught at school. I assume the argument would be that school geography has been colonised by the RGS/ grography-as-exploring mentality, and a tabula rasa is easier to deal with than overcoming the positivist prejudices supposedly . Apart from the practical effect this would have on the profile of geography for the prospective undergraduate, other subjects in which the critical methodology is now widespread within teaching universities, must have the same problem of overcoming universalist attitudes instilled at school. The answer is not to marginalise in another arena whatever exists under the title "geography." ------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Benneworth E-mail [log in to unmask] Junior Research Associate Office (0191) 222 8510 CURDS Home (0191) 213 0815 Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU ------------------------------------------------------------ The Competitiveness Project on the Web 'www.ncl.ac.uk/~ncurds/rrcp/' ------------------------------------------------------------ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%