notícia... da educação (lá por fora)...belgium's future teachers show worrying gaps in general knowledge [será que isto tem 'algum' significado... para o que se passa neste cantinho...?]... via the guardian...!

"Two in three Belgian final-year teaching students could not identify this man.

 

A large number of Belgium's future secondary school teachers struggle with basic concepts of geography, politics and history, a study has revealed.

Among final-year teaching students involved in the study, one in three could not identify the United States on a map and almost half did not know where the Pacific Ocean was.

Shown a picture of Mao Zedong, two in three could not recognise the Chinese communist leader, with the most common response being that it was the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

Researchers at the Limburg Catholic University College tested 1,000 students in eight teacher training colleges in Belgium's Flemish region."

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