2009/3/25 Phil Nash pn007a2145@blueyonder.co.uk:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/3/25 Phil Nash pn007a2145@blueyonder.co.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.