在现代整体结构观影响下,现代地理学正转变为一门综合科学.在部门地理和区域地理研究中,应建立有关地球表层或地理环境的综合理论研究.从工业社会向信息社会过渡中,地理教材编写要现代化,应培养"T"形和"干",形的交差学科人材.

Modern geography is becoming a synthetic science under the influence of modern whole structure conception,since the object of its research the synthesis of the surface layers of the earth,include the geographical environments of nature,economy,society and haman,and aach respect can be subdivided into a series of different components.In order to meet this transformation,it is necessary for geography to establish the synthetic theoretical research relevant to the surface layers of the earth or geographical environments in the fields of departmental geography and regional geography.In the transitional period from industrial society to information one,talented persons of T-shape come out first.If the horizontal foundation is divided into two levels,the mentioned above talented persons can be called 干-shape ones.Both T-shape and 干-shape talented persons belong to the qualified scientists and technicians of interdiscipline,also called systematic talents.In order to train synthetic geographers of 干-shape,the author has given a lecture on the topic of "Scientific Philosophy and Methodology of Geoscience" at the Dapartment of Geography,Beijing University and the Postgraduate Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences.The compilation of teaching materials of geography must direct to modernization.