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Topic outline

 

  • Time: 4 hours
    Level: Introductory

 
 

Introduction

  • Introduction Resource
  • Commemoration – remembering and marking your past – makes an important contribution to our sense of community. Written texts, memorials, letters and photographs can all serve to commemorate events, people...
 

1 Choosing the past for the future

  • 1 Choosing the past for the future Resource
  • History is selective. What history books tell us about the past is not everything that happened, but what historians have selected. They cannot put in everything: choices have to be made. Choices must...
 

2 Facts and skills in history

  • 2 Facts and skills in history Resource
  • The second issue we identified in the 1990 debate was the divide some people saw between facts and skills, arguing about facts or skills, as if you couldn't teach or learn both. Prime Minister Margaret...
 

3 Conclusion

  • 3 Conclusion Resource
  • This point marks the end of the material focused directly on the theme of commemoration and memorial. We have approached this theme from a number of angles, and some of the activities suggest new directions...
 

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