tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post3795044782042621715..comments2023-10-15T10:29:12.991+01:00Comments on Karyn's erratic learning journey: British people losing track of their own historyThe upsychohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06345558899662051670noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post-63030547040241436072008-02-06T17:23:00.000+00:002008-02-06T17:23:00.000+00:00Doug: I took history all the way through to the en...Doug: I took history all the way through to the end of my secondary school career. I loved it! I loved the narrative aspect and the way everything could be woven together. I loved it when the teacher unpicked a thread of some current event and traced it back to the assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd, or the disenfranchisement of the Cape Coloured population. I loved discovering that the great figures of history were real people. <BR/><BR/>What I hated was having to remember it all! I hated having to know when the Crimean War started, and what the cause was of each of the (many) wars between the Afrikaner and the Xhosas and the Zulus and the English and and and<BR/><BR/>And I was completely unable to hold all the pictures in my head at once. I couldn't figure out the relationship between what was happening in Germany and what was happening in Japan just before World War II. I could only think of each country, each significant incident in isolation.<BR/><BR/>I got an E.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post-6977003956839657222008-02-04T18:48:00.000+00:002008-02-04T18:48:00.000+00:00I despair Karyn, I really do...It's probably somet...I despair Karyn, I really do...<BR/><BR/>It's probably something to do with the media-tization (if that's such a word) of History. Everything is treated with equal respect and with a mock-serious tone.<BR/><BR/>So yes, it's not time to be teaching LESS History, it's time to be teaching MORE! :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com