ON GEOGRAPHY TEACHING. 321 
Geography Teaching. Report of Committee (Professor T. P. 
Nunn, Chairman; Mr. W. H. Barker, Secretary; Mr. L. Brooxg, 
Professor H. J. Furure, Mr. O. J. R. Howarrs, Sir H. J. 
Macxinver, Professor J. L. Myrus, and Professor J. F. UNstEap, 
from Section HE; Mr. Aviam, Mr. D. Berripce, Mr. C. EK. 
Browne, Sir RicHarp Grecory, Mr. EH. SHARwoop SmitrH, Mr. 
HK. R. Tuomas, and Miss O. Wricut, from Section L). 
Prefatory Note. 
Ar the Edinburgh Meeting of the British Association the discussion, in both 
Sections E and L, on the effect of the Regulations of the Board of Education 
upon the position ot geography in secondary schools, was followed by the 
appointment by the General Committee of a Research Committee ‘ to formulate 
suggestions for a syllabus for the teaching of geography both to matriculation 
standard and in advanced courses ; to report upon the present position of the geo- 
graphical training of teachers, and to make recommendations thereon; and to 
report, as occasion arises, to Council, through the Organising Committee of 
Section E, upon the practical working of Regulations issued by the Board of 
Education affecting the position of geography in training colleges and secondary 
schools.’ The members of the Committee were Professor T. P. Nunn (Chair- 
man), Mr. W. H. Barker (Secretary), Mr. C. E. Browne, and Sir Halford J. 
Mackinder. ' ; 
During the period that the Committee carried on its investigations the 
Council had correspondence with the Board of Education on the subject, and 
obtained from the Board a statement relating to Revised Regulations for 
Secondary Schools, England, 1921, as follows :— 
(1) The effect of Article 7 is to make it necessary that the course of work 
should be arranged as to secure that every pupil who remains in the school till 
the age of sixteen shall during his school life have passed through an adequate 
course of graduated instruction in each one of the subjects named in the Article. 
(2) In a circular issued in 1919 it was stated that Geography ‘necessarily 
holds, as an essential part of all proper study of histcry, an important place in 
all courses belonging to Group B and Group C; and that the definition of Group C 
embodied in the current Regulations affords special opportunity for increased 
attention to Geography in connection with the work in history.’ ‘This view is 
also applicable to the new Group D courses allowed under the recent Regulations. 
(3) Geography is not accepted as a main subject in Group A (Science and 
Mathematics). 
The groups B, C, and D, referred to in (2) above, refer to main subjects of 
study in advanced courses and, as defined in the Regulations, consist respec- 
tively of ‘ (B) Classics, viz. the civilisation of the ancient world as embodied in 
the language, literature, and history of Greece and Rome; (C) Modern Studies, 
viz. the language, literature, and history of the countries of Western Europe 
in modern and medieval times; (D) the civilisation (i) of Greece or Rome and 
(ii) of England or another country of Western Europe in modern times as 
_ embodied in their language, literature, and history.’ 
The correspondence embodying the above statement was published in the 
press by order of the Council, with the consent of the Board. 
The Council, after further correspondence with the Board, were gratified to 
learn from the draft Requlations for Secondary Schools, 1922, that the position 
of geography in the curriculum was to be materially strengthened, and that it 
was to be included as a principal subject in advanced courses (Group E).1 
The new regulations referred to in the above Report (see also ‘ Higher 
School Certificate,’ p. 335) so materially altered the position of geography in 
schools that the Committee decided to withhold its report and to recommend 
1 See Report of the Council, 1921-22, pp. xiv-xv. 
