Index, Volume 1 (1951) Through Volume 7 (1959)

Abstract

Prefatory note. A look backward, to see where we have been, is often helpful in looking forward to see where we are going. I hope this index will not only be conventionally useful, but will also indicate what has so far been of enough interest to teachers of geology to warrant publication in their Journal. A perusal of the Subject Index reveals that the largest number of papers have been on the elementary geology course; geology in relation to other subjects; historical geology; mineralogy; and teaching aims, methods, and devices. In contrast, little attention has been given to economic geology, geomorphology, paleontology, petrology, and structural geology; or to the teaching of advanced courses. In future volumes of the Journal, perhaps teachers involved in this second group of subjects will prove to be as articulate in presenting their problems and methods as those of the first group have been up to the present. Previous editors of the Journal of Geological Education are as follows: Volume 1, 1951–1953...