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Summary Geography in the '90s: Teaching and learning with the AAG/NCGEGuidelines for Geographic Education was the title of a session at the August, 1985, meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) in Breckenridge, Colorado. Participants worked with theGuidelines to establish criteria and concepts to prepare solutions to the problems of worthwhile and effective geographic education. Leaders structured the work of participants, using a tight, six-step, problem-solving, process model. This model was selected as the best way in a three-hour session to help education decision makers absorb theGuidelines and master its detail while analyzing and evaluating theGuidelines as a blueprint for transforming the way students and teachers learn and think about geography. Judging by sustained participant interest and interaction, the effort devoted to carefully drafting the details of how best to present the material did enhance learning and stimulate thinking seriously about geographic education. This paper describes the reason for the workshop (Part I), outlines major components of the workshop in Part II, and makes explicit some of the less readily discerned but critical contextual aspects of the session in Part III.Dr Dixie Ann Pemberton is Associate Professor in Geography at the Horn Point Environmental Laboratories of the University of Maryland. She has extensive experience in program development, administration, training and public information in the areas of education, geography and natural resources management.