2009/3/25 Phil Nash <[email protected]>: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >>> 2009/3/25 Phil Nash <[email protected]>: >>>> 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. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
