An Appalling Ignorance of the World: The Price of Affluence?

Autor/in	Wise, John H.
Titel	An Appalling Ignorance of the World: The Price of Affluence?
Quelle	(1975), (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Educational Diagnosis; Educational Improvement; Educational Quality; Elementary Secondary Education; Geographic Location; Geographic Regions; Geography; Geography Instruction; Global Approach; Higher Education; Map Skills; Speeches; Student Evaluation; World Affairs; World Geography + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pedagogical diagnostics; Pädagogische Diagnostik; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Geografie; Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; Globales Denken; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Kartenverständnis; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Weltpolitik; Weltkunde
Abstract	Today's students in the Western world show a widespread lack of basic world knowledge. Geography graduates in a Canadian and an Australian university were asked to locate 75 major cities in the world. The results indicated a wide knowledge of cities in the Western world but little knowledge of cities in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Only three out of 75 Canadian graduates could correctly locate the countries of Mali, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau. Eight suggestions to improve geography education call for increases in (1) selectivity of entrants into university programs, (2) numbers and variety of geography courses, (3) infusion of Third World examples into university geography courses, (4) exchange of geography scholars between the Third World and the Western countries, (5) qualified geography teachers to serve in preservice and inservice programs for teachers, (6) mandatory world geography courses at the university level, (7) emphasis in teaching map skills for all educational levels, and (8) recognition that elementary and secondary geography need not emulate university geography courses. (Author/DE)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01