Geography has had difficulty in establishing itself in the modern secondary school curric ulum mainly because its admirers and prac titioners have had difficulty in agreeing on why it should be there at all. Anderson traces the varying patterns of thought on this issue.
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An excellent instructional resource for introducing and applying the concept of spatial interaction to secondary students is Clyde F. Kohn (ed.), Selected Classroom Experiences: High School Geography Project, Geographic Education Series No. 4 (Normal, Ill.: National Council for Geographic Education, 1964), 60 pp.
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For an examination of the rationale and methodology of the inter-cultural approach in secondary school geography, see Robert A. Harper, "Geography's Role in General Education," Journal of Geography, LXV (April 1966), pp. 177-185, and Edward A. Ackerman , "Where Is a Research Frontier?" Annals, Association of American Geographers, LIII (Dec. 1963), pp. 435-437.
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An account of the development of secondary school geography during the nineteenth century is contained in R. C. Anderson's "Secondary School Geography and Its Status in the North Central Region: 1962-1963," op. cit., pp. 5-8.
