An interesting article on the poor global geography knowledge of students from Canada.
Do we do any better in the UK ?
What part should this sort of 'core' knowledge play in our curriculum ?
How significant will it be in the new specifications and curricula that emerge, hopefully soon, from the DfE ?
"Basic geography allows us to locate where we are in the world. It gives us a sense of time, and space, and scope, and, alas, Canadian students at MUN appear too spaced out to notice that the ocean they are perched on is the Atlantic."
Do we do any better in the UK ?
What part should this sort of 'core' knowledge play in our curriculum ?
How significant will it be in the new specifications and curricula that emerge, hopefully soon, from the DfE ?
"Basic geography allows us to locate where we are in the world. It gives us a sense of time, and space, and scope, and, alas, Canadian students at MUN appear too spaced out to notice that the ocean they are perched on is the Atlantic."
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