I don't think I ever had a "geography" class. I had Social Studies. We might have seen maps of various places, but I don't recall that we were ever tested on them.
I think I might have had a class at one point that was specifically labelled geogrpahy and that dealt with maps in general and how they are used to show things (physical geography, political boundaries, geology, environmental patterns, etc.) But I'm pretty sure that all my grade school classes that involved learning about countries (ours or other ones) involved maps in text books and blank maps that one had to drawn or write things on in tests and quizzes.
I think the stat early in the article that "Fewer than three in 10 think it important to know the locations of countries in the news..." is the crucial one. If people actively want to be ignorant (as many peope seem to) even the best teachers are fighting an uphill battle to educate tehm.
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Date: 2006-05-02 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 05:57 pm (UTC)I think the stat early in the article that "Fewer than three in 10 think it important to know the locations of countries in the news..." is the crucial one. If people actively want to be ignorant (as many peope seem to) even the best teachers are fighting an uphill battle to educate tehm.
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Date: 2006-05-02 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 06:13 pm (UTC)