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Interesting. So you'd structure it around the history of power and human governance, with a mild Eurocentric focus? I suppose if this were a Western school it would make sense to leave out most history East of say, Turkey. Civic History does have a bit of a ring to it.
I don't recall ever having been taught about actual politics in high school, so this Civics class must be either a recent addition or not present in the Canadian curriculum (or present but too boring to remember).
history at the secondary level is and has for a long time been failing at teaching the history of our country (our institutions, our systems of law and governance) in ways that aren't, as any high school kid here could tell you, fucking boring as shit. australian history is consistently the least enjoyed part of the HS curriculum - you ask the kids what they like, it's the 'flavour' units, WW2, Russian Revolution, Nazis, US New Deal. my conviction is that this does not have to be the case. it's not an inherent flaw in the subject matter - as the typical settler-colony anxiety about having no real history (which so often manifests as the stupid, hysterical mythologising of really very minor events) would have it. it springs from a failure of vision on the part of the authorities who design the HS curriculum, a failure to grasp that teaching history has any real purpose beyond helping people appreciate hollywood blockbusters and knowing what Anzac Day is supposed to be about
かん汗ぎゅう牛じゅう充とう棟
Expresses the exceeding size of one's library.
Books are extremely many, loaded on an oxcart the ox will sweat.
At home piled to the ridgepole of the house, from this meaning.
Read out as 「Ushi ni ase shi, munagi ni mitsu.」
Source: 柳宗元「其為書,處則充棟宇,出則汗牛馬。」— Tang Dynasty
O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed you have not already collapsed in ruin.
Yeah Canadian History sucked.
Binged All Of Gundam In 4 Years, 1 Week and All I Got Was This Stupid Mask
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Started Legend of the Galactic Heroes (14/07/23), pray for me.
I'm going to teach art history in spirit, even though I'm not supposed to teach art history, because art history is what I understand best. I use lots and lots of visual aids for showing students what cultures looked like and what things they were especially eccentric in. The schedule is pretty much split into national history and world history, as it usually tends to be, with breaks to talk about full histories of other places in short, single go each.
Inevitably, when we get to Constantine the Great, I will find myself having to actually explain Christianity to students in theological and historical sense because just saying 'and then everyone was Christian' and moving on wouldn't do. I might as well do the same with other religions, which will inevitably force me to always explain to students how people thought, an then I look at my notes and find that I am herding cats. Being able to go in depth on everyone's perspective on every issue would be wonderful, and the easiest way to color the matter outside of literally using color, but I doubt we have the time for everything.
In regards to national history I at least go out of my way to explain that every single era in this country sucked in this or that way, and the situation of national identity and state legitimacy we find ourselves in at this point is more or less a pentuple lie, but we have culture that's our own, so that's probably the easiest way to define ourselves, and that's why I've been teaching culture. This might be haram to some people above, but I cannot lie.
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sounds like you have similar problems to us
かん汗ぎゅう牛じゅう充とう棟
Expresses the exceeding size of one's library.
Books are extremely many, loaded on an oxcart the ox will sweat.
At home piled to the ridgepole of the house, from this meaning.
Read out as 「Ushi ni ase shi, munagi ni mitsu.」
Source: 柳宗元「其為書,處則充棟宇,出則汗牛馬。」— Tang Dynasty
dunno if the poll is on or not, but i voted for others. since history to me is what people think has happened, regardless of whether it really did or not
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I can't believe I posted in this thread when I was still an undergrad
<NEW FIC!> Revolution #9: Somewhere out there, there's a universe in which your mistakes and failures never happened, and all you wished for is true. How hard would you fight to make that real?
[11:20:46 AM] GlowStiks: lucina is supes attractive
[12:40] Lace: lucina is amazing
[12:40] Neir: lucina is pretty much flawless
A tangle of narratives that tries to explain how we got to the current point, legitimized by an underlying collection of historical artifacts/texts.
don't quote me on this
That which is passed down
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<NEW FIC!> Revolution #9: Somewhere out there, there's a universe in which your mistakes and failures never happened, and all you wished for is true. How hard would you fight to make that real?
[11:20:46 AM] GlowStiks: lucina is supes attractive
[12:40] Lace: lucina is amazing
[12:40] Neir: lucina is pretty much flawless
Signatures exist for a reason.
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