"understanding gap" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a lack of understanding or knowledge about a particular topic or subject. Example: The students struggled to bridge the understanding gap between theory and practical application in their science experiments.
In the UK, there will be a far wider understanding gap to overcome.
It's not "out of touch" but I accept there is probably an understanding gap.
He mentioned how he had read Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" — about the intergenerational understanding gap in the eighteen-sixties — in school, several years ago, and it echoed his conversations at home.
Asked if the group would take up the criticisms in the Jesuit article, given how close the authors are to Francis, Moore said in an interview that perhaps there is an "understanding gap" at the Vatican.
In this paper two models are presented for regular grids, that fill the understanding gap: the piston spring model for rather stiff roofs and the bar spring model for extremely flexible ones.
Carefully crafted stories allow us to bridge the understanding gap.
Results highlight knowledge and understanding gaps of climate change science in pre-service teachers and mistrust of sources of climate change information in the general public.
Understanding gaps in the public's knowledge about avian influenza risks and transmission provides guidance on which issues future public health information campaigns may wish to focus.
Understanding gaps in current coverage and where coverage is good, in different contexts and places of delivery, could make a valuable contribution to the future design of interventions to reduce neonatal mortality.
Thus, in order to bridge possible understanding gaps for the listeners and in order to express her thoughts more fully, it was meaningful to use verbal and nonverbal means of expression.
Finally, it helps in understanding the gap between Europe and America regarding the social and democratic governance of the development of nanotechnologies.
