Changing Horizons in Geography Education - HERODOT Network ...

Figure 9. Countries mentioned by the 10 year old German childrenIn the context of the questionnaire survey about 60 per cent of the children knewtheir own continent. Only in the UK was Europe named in less than 40 per cent ofthe cases. Also, more than half of the involved children concerned (65 per cent) wereable to locate their country on a given world map (Figure 10).Figure 10. Extract from the student questionnaireThereby, the distribution within the different countries was again very different.In the context of the study, for the children from France, Spain and the UK, themajority were able to locate their own country on the map (Figure 11). Reasons forthis could be among other things the edge and/or island location of these countries.210