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In Francophone Belgium, textbooks are very rare since the reform of secondary schools in 1969 and 1972. Four principal reasons explain this situation: new aims of education (learning how to learn); multiplication of syllabuses, mainly in the French community; stress laid on the environment and current issues; and the limited size of the market. If this situation is stimulated for some teachers (they are artisans of their educational practice), the global evaluation is more negative than positive: lessons appear more as collections of juxtaposed documents than structured learning situations, and generally geography is becoming a soft option with an unfocused and incoherent content. It is imperative to refocus geographical education on its basic concepts and skills, and to give new textbooks to the students.
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Translated from the French by Norman Graves