Whatever Happened to Geographic Literacy?

H.J. de Blij

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Document Type

Lecture

Abstract

International competitions, tests and polls prove that Americans are among the most geographically illiterate citizens in the world. Indeed, the U.S.A. is the only country o f consequence in which it is possible to go from kindergarten through graduate school without ever having taking a course in geography. As a result, political leaders have embarrassed themselves and their country in foreign settings; members of the govern ment have misled the country in disastrous foreign-policy campaigns. Additionally, an inadequately educated public is in no position to make its views count. H.J. deBlij, a world-renown geography scholar and former geography editor for Good Morning Americ a, will address why geographic illiteracy can have catastrophic consequences and what could and should be done about it.

Publication Date

1-16-2003

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