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Central Morning | Jan 16, 2013 | 8:55

Geography Prof Says Shaming Doesn't Work

A department head at MUN says embarrassing students about their lack of knowledge isn't going to make them learn geography. Yesterday, Caroline Hillier told us about a sociology professor who was giving students pop geography tests because they didn't know where to find the countries she was teaching about. Charles Mather is the head of the geography department at Memorial University

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