COMMISSION: GEOGRAPHY IN EDUCATION

The meaning of objectives in geographic education andthe need to structure objectives in some hierarchical manner are presented in this paper. Discussion in past years centered on the teaching of general objectives in geography classes. During the last twenty years, however, geography instructors realized that objectives may be at various levels-of generality or specificity and this led to a focus on behavioral objectives. Bloom's Taxonomy was used in an attempt to structure the objectives of geography teaching into a hierarchy from the point of view of the intellectual abilities required to achieve these objectives. However, such a hierarchy is-incomplete if examined from the point of view of a teacher attemptingto structure a geography course. This hierarchy structure disregards the idea that concepts of widely differing intellectual levels may beinvolved, ignoring the data of a relationship between concepts and levels of operation. It is suggested that a logical structure existsin which more complex concepts are based on an infrastructure of simpler ones. Therefore the development of a geOgraphy course could depend on a close analysis of the logical structure of concepts and principles inherent in the topics taught, and on their carefu