-Durova
P.S. Shameless plug for an article I wrote. The audio file is a featured
sound.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
2009/3/25 Phil Nash
<pn007a2145(a)blueyonder.co.uk>uk>:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/3/25 Phil Nash
<pn007a2145(a)blueyonder.co.uk>uk>:
>> I don't see much of a problem with this, as a comparison implies
>> some sort of value-judgement.
>
> UK primary school history does tend to focus on people a lot, rather
> than details of historical events.
Probably more recent than my 1950s primary school history, which IIRC,
was
more about dates and events rather than people,
and my 1960s history
education was more about politics than anything else. Social history
might
just as well have been a foreign language when I
was taught. Let's just
say
it didn't relate to my experience of life,
and thus failed to light my
fire.
Indeed, history education has changed a lot since then! When I was in
primary school (10+ years ago) we hardly learned any dates, it was all
about what life was like during that period.
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