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Travelling BA yesterday I got a free copy of the Express!!! Piece in there by Hartston (presumably tongue-in-cheek) which was hardly favourable to geography RON On Tue, 4 May 1999 15:08:08 +0100 (BST) "Dr G. Kearns" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I've not seen the articles inthe Mail and Telegraph that this piece was a > response to so it is a little difficult to know what exactly is being > proposed for school curricula. However, I have some sympathy with the > central point that Moss makes about the need to retain both content and > concepts in geographical teaching. No-one wants what he calls the > general-knowledge-quiz style of geography where the subject is no > more than a list of facts. On the other hand, I agree with him that the > teaching of arguments without reference to the factual materials upon > which people must call in advancing or rejecting arguments would be > irresponsible. I can't imagine that either of these polarities are > seriously intended for school geography. > As for his comments about the status of geography, we may bemoan it but we > can surely also take it as a warning. For those who have not read the > Guardian piece, I should add that Moss says he took history rather than > geography at University because he thought it was a subject with a higher > status. > Gerry Kearns ---------------------- ron johnston [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%