ABSTRACT
Geometry not only offers a chance of welding aspects of human and physical geography in a new working partnership, but revives the central role of cartography in relation to the two. Most geographers welcome progressive changes and many geographers, in public at any rate, seem to want the same kind of changes, but somehow the aspirations are caught up in an academic log-jam. Perhaps the most immediate inertial problem faced by geographers is the constriction imposed by geography’s past growth. Contributors were gathered both from personal contacts and colleagues who could be persuaded to leave the safety of their prepared geographical positions and ‘go over the top’ into the exposed conflict of preuniversity education. Recognition of the need for a complete and radical re-evaluation of the traditional approaches both to geography and to geographical teaching in Britain characterizes many of the contributions.
