|
|
History Education in the News
News and Discussion on developments in the world of History Education.
(
Disclaimer)
Tags >> education
|
|
Posted by Trainee in USA , United States , the past , the constitution , Textbooks , Textbook , Texas , syllabus , students , Stalin , Soviet Union , Soviet , schools , Russia , identity , gulag , Founding Fathers , events , Europe , education , curriculum , communism , Cold War , church , China , British
|
Source:BBC; June 28,2010
Why rewrite history books - to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative for the good of the nation, asks David Cannadine in his Point of View column.
According to a newspaper report last week, the Russian authorities have recently gathered together a group of academics to draw up a school textbook that would present an approved version of the complex and controversial events that make up Russian history.
Click here to read the full article
|
|
Posted by Trainee in World War II , wartime , UK , The Ministry of Education , the constitution , teachers , schools , Sarkozy , nazis , NATO , identity , history , historian , globalisation , France , elections , education , de Gaulle , curriculum , conservative
|
Source: Bloomberg; 24 June 2010
Seventy years after issuing his call for France to defy the Vichy collaborationist regime, Charles de Gaulle is again dividing the French. The government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose political party is descended from the World War II general’s followers, has included De Gaulle’s wartime memoirs in the curriculum for next year’s high-school literary classes. Sarkozy is in London today to commemorate De Gaulle’s June 18, 1940, radio broadcast urging a defeated France not to give up.
Click here to read the full article
|
|
Posted by Trainee in United nations , UNESCO , UN , teachers , syllabus , students , secondary school , schools , integration , history , historian , heritage , education , conference , African , Africa
|
Source: The Southern Times; June 24, 2010
Johannesburg – United Nations historians, education specialists and governments are now developing a common history syllabus for schools across the African continent in an effort to ensure that African youth learn about their common heritage. The new syllabus is to be based on the book entitled 'General History of Africa', an eight-volume series written from an African perspective and published by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
Click here to read the full article
|
|
Posted by Trainee in the constitution , nationalism , minorities , migration , internet , identity , Hungary , holocaust , history education , history , genocide , Facing History and Ourselves , education , democracy , culture
|
Source: The Budapest Report; 17 June 2010
By adapting the scientific understanding of teenagers, how they think, learn, and are moved to action, a successful program of history teaching, called Facing History and Ourselves, has gained prominence internationally. Adaptable to all regions, a basis for this method is to draw on the parallels with clearest modern tragedy from Holocaust Education. The focus of Holocaust Education in Hungary, and for Genocide Studies elsewhere, is different and in many ways more complex than in the US. For Facing this is not news.
Click here to read the full article
|
|
Posted by Trainee in world history , the past , Textbooks , Textbook , Texas , teachers , students , liberal , history education , history , education , curriculum , conservative , civics , church , bias
|
Source: The Depaulia; 9 June, 2010
Changes to Texas textbooks have caused outrage across the country. On May 21, the 15-member Texas Board of Education voted 9-5 to pass new standards that apply to all civics classes. The board argued that the teachers that wrote the curriculum were too liberally biased and believe the corrections they made to include Republican political philosophies and the portrayal of conservatives in a more positive light.
Click here to read the full article
|
|
Posted by Trainee in World War II , Ukraine , the past , Textbook , teachers , Stalinism , Stalin , Soviet Union , Russia , reconciliation , Putin , Poland , Nazi Germany , Medvedev , Katyn , identity , history , education , communism , church
|
Source: The New York Times; 11 May, 2010
Over the objections of many Russians, posters bearing Stalin’s image were approved by Moscow’s city government for display during celebrations marking Victory Day in Russia on Sunday. The issue was debated in the weeks leading up to the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, and, in the end, the anti-Stalinists won.
Click here to read the full article
Source: Mail Online; 19 April, 2010
For more than half a century, most intelligent children in Britain have grown up to live in the half-darkness of historical ignorance. The result is generations of adults who, having left school, mourn their lack of knowledge about the past but don't know how to remedy it and are soon busy with children of their own.
Click here to read the full article
|
|
Posted by Trainee in The Ministry of Education , Poland , Palestine , Obama , Israelis , Israel , history , historian , events , education , democracy
|
Source: Haaretz; April 12, 2010
Last week I flew to Eilat with two young officers of the IDF Spokesperson Unit. One of them inquired what book I was reading. It was Carole Angier's magisterial biography of Primo Levi. "Who is that?" was her immediate response. I couldn't believe at first that a graduate of one the country's best high schools, who had gone through the rigorous selection process - which favors candidates with a wide breadth of general knowledge - had never heard of the Italian-Jewish chemist and his ground-breaking memoir of 11 months in Auschwitz, "If This Is a Man."
Click here to read the full article
|
|
Posted by Trainee in Yugoslavia , truth , the past , Stalinism , Soviet Union , Roma , reconciliation , propaganda , nazism , museums , identity , history , Germany , genocide , events , European Court of Human Rights , education , Eastern Europe , Council of Europe , commission , Central Europe , Balkans , Asia
|
Source: Global Perspectives; April 7, 2010
STRASBOURG (IDN) - Gross human rights violations in the past continue to affect relations in today’s Europe. In some cases the right lessons have been learned; genuine knowledge of history has facilitated understanding, tolerance and trust between individuals and peoples. However, some serious atrocities are denied or trivialised, which has created new tensions.
Click here to read the full article
Source: Haaretz; March 31, 2010
Most high schools in the country teach less than the recommended seven to nine hours of history per week, and the history that is taught focuses too much on the details of the Holocaust and not enough on the War of Independence, according to one of Israel's most prominent historians.
Click here to read the full article
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next > End >>
|
|
