What was your school history education like?

What was your school history education like?

Write a history curriculum to be taught from the first year of high school to the last.

Well I think no more than one year should be fully dedicated to your own country's history. There's way too much ancient and world history to cover.

You know you can tell a poster is still pupae or larvae when they post about high school

It's a completely irrelevant and forgettable time in most peoples' lives, psychology babble about a "developmental phase" be damned.

I'm 23 and doing history at university.

High School will be most peoples only foray into history. So it's important that they get taught the right things, lest they will have no idea of the progress or human, or where they stand in relation to it. I have met people who think we've had cars for 1000 years, and someone once said the Romans existed 20,000 years ago. Basic shit like this can't be excused.

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1: The Text, Change over Time, Difference
2: Interpretation, The constitution of identity, The Pasts's own specific visions of itself
3: History as literary, The plurality of subjects, The incompetence of past texts to speak of themselves
4: Theory: material & ideal; The subject's own decomposition, The universal incompetence of texts
5: Theory: Race, Gender, Class; Plural subjects, The hermeneutic art of reading competence into incompetence
6: Theory: purpose of historiography; Historian as active subject in the intertext; intertext and hypertext.

As far as content, who cares? its all about method.

that's bullshit though. Teach them how to properly form a historical narrative.

I very much disagree. My class did an entire year on the schools' neighborhood's history, and we did more actual history than I ever did in 4 years of college (although I majored in math so I only took like 2 history classes). Going to libraries and historical societies, digging up old newspaper articles and interviewing people in our community. That's real history and a much better model for what high school students should be doing, rather than wanking over marble sculptures.

Pic sort of related, it was taken about 2 blocks away from my school.

I'd say high school history is more about teaching kids the patterns of history and skills like identifying causality. The examples you use to convey these is secondary, because they can be applied to the study of most everything. History by memorization of names and dates is just trivial knowledge and studies make it clear it isn't well retained.

A public high school curriculum can only hope to give a generalized view anyway. Your job is to peak their interest and, hopefully, prepare them for specialized study in college.

You mean the first unit's methodology in second form.

Fuck off you post-modern slime. Hayden White is dead.

>peak
pique

me no spel gud

Not really, most simply wont go onto history even if you get them interested. The Job of high school history is to give them an overview of human history and then their countries history, not to focus on a specialised topic.

Thats what high school should be about in general, assuming most wont go to further education, it is the time to educate them about the world.

world history as a content area is a dead fucking end of whiggish shite

You don't have to go into depth or even debate.

Literally just start at the stone age, go through the agricultural revolution, metal ages, and how we got to here. People need to have an idea of how humanity got to where it is.

>What was your school history education like?

My high school didn't have a history class. History was a small part of SOSE

That is PRECISELY what whig history is.

For fucksake, go read Herbert Butterfield _The Whig Interpretation of History_

If you present it as a continuous progression rather than a description of what has occurred that is.

No it really isn't. How on earth can discussion the passage of history be some specific interpretation.

>Whig history (or Whig historiography) is an approach to historiography that presents the past as an inevitable progression towards ever greater liberty and enlightenment, culminating in modern forms of liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy.
This is not what I am proposing, i am just proposing to teach the full course of human history rather than snippets of it. Not to come to some conclusion that everything is great now.

>7th grade
Social studies focusing on the world
>8th grade
Social studies focusing on America
>9th grade
World history
>10th & 11th grade
APUSH
>12th grade
AP Government with the APUSH teacher

Presenting a description of a continuity of "human" "worldness" is presenting a continuous progression.

"the full course of human history" is a subject that doesn't exist in the documentary record until the "white man's burden" was invented in the 19th century.

Fuck off.

Mandatory schooling
>Some bits about Prehistory and evolution
>Ancient World. Fertile Crescent, Ancient Egypt, Greek Polis and Alexander the Great, Rome.
>Middle Ages. Early Germanic kingdoms, Al-Andalus. Charlemagne, Reconquista.
>Early Modern History. Monarchies, Absolutism.
>Late Modern History. French Revolution, Napoleonic stuff, XIX Century, Liberalism, Restauración, Primo de Rivera,Republic and Civil War, Francoism.

Non-mandatory schooling:
Optative:
>Late Modern World History.
Mandatory:
>Late Modern Spanish History.

>"the full course of human history" is a subject that doesn't exist
Yes it does. I know it's impossible to teach history without being somewhat subjective, but you can still try to teach an objective course. You are being really retarded, this is not a difficult concept to grasp. You'd rather high school history spend 5 years on the American Civil war i suppose.

>Presenting a description of a continuity of "human" "worldness" is presenting a continuous progression.
No, because progression means getting better. This would just be a timeline.

I'd rather we spend six forms dealing with content at well accepted scales to impart methodology, in particular broad reading for bias. Off the top of my head for content:

1
Something local involving feudals as politics
The Most Recent War Everyone Cared About
Feudals as everyday life

2
Some national mythology overturned
First World War
Social history of chix

3
A 19th century war as politics
Something racial in early modernity
Decolonisation

4
Everyday life in industrialisation
Some nationalist shit as a war history
Politics and statecraft, late 19th c

5
France, Revolution
Earliest history of "the nation"
Class in the 1930s in the local nation

6
Russia, Revolution
Cold War to 1965
Chix in the mid 19th Century

Obviously Ancient History / Classics should be a separate subject

>This would just be a timeline.
>a timeline

>a timeline
…

So much "history" in that chronicle mate.

>Obviously Ancient History / Classics should be a separate subject
I disagree. That's like being born at age 10.

A detailed timeline with each year covering one major epoch

>epoch
And pray tell on what theoretical and methodological basis do you delineate these epochs. Answer solely from the hermeneusis of the sources themselves.

Dude, 6 years of classics + 6 years of history is the only way to live high school.

Black history, History of women, History of oppression by white men.

Bronze age
Antiquity
Medieval era
Early modern history
Modern history

Done. Bang. 5 years and you've covered the basics of human history. It doesn't have to conform to any of your pre conceived definitions.

No, it has to conform to your preconcieved definitions. The most aeliamentary historical materialist critique blows your periodisation of meta-history out of the water. Let us recourse to feminist meta-history, oh again you're shown as tendential.

Fuck off.

Close reading of limited topics.

we learn world and national history from age 10 to 18

>having to share a board with historical illiterates

a 14y old probably knows more than you western shitters

>No, it has to conform to your preconcieved definitions
It doesn't matter where you define the cut off points, it all gets covered, thats the beauty of it.
>The most aeliamentary historical materialist critique blows your periodisation of meta-history out of the water.
Who cares, silly semantics, as long as the history gets covered i couldn't give a shit where you define antiquity to begin. All you care about is your big words and political ideologies. I just want to teach kids the basics of human history so they don't spend their lives having no idea where Europe came from or thinking the Greeks lived a million years ago.

>historiography
>silly semantics
Thank you for conceding that you're a whig historian.

>"Europe"
ha ha ha oh wow. Tell me about your "Europe."

>or thinking the Greeks lived a million years ago
Sure, because your potted "bronze age" is going to be sufficient to engage Greek antiquity.

Philippines here. This was how High School History went down.

>Freshman Year
Flip history. Starting with geography of Philippines, pre-colonial shit, and then colonial shit, followed by republican period up to the 80's.
>Sophomore Year
Asian History. Starting with geography. Broad survey of the major regions (East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, ME) from prehistoric times to the 80's.
>Junior year
"""""""World"""""" history, but really just USA and Europe from the prehistoric times to the 80's. With Europe funnily disappearing as a subject of interest post-war and we all study US policies and history come 1945+

Year 10 (History and Geography combined in one subject, only spend 2 terms on History)

Term 2:
60's counterculture, Cold War, Vietnam

Term 4:
"Contemporary Issues" - Mostly about the war on Terror, Islam and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Year 11 Modern History:

Terms 1 & 2:
Aftermath of WW1
Weimar Republic Germany
Rise of the Nazi party
Imprisonment of Hitler
Resurgence of the Nazi party
SA & SS, Night of the Long Knives
Nazi racial policies, beliefs about Jews (Never mentioned why they hated Jews), Kristallnacht
Hitler Youth and life in Nazi Germany
The role of Propaganda in WW2 (By both sides)
How WW2 started
How WW2 ended
Aftermath of WW2
The Holocaust
The Nuremberg trials

Term 3:
The Slave Trade
The American Civil War
Black and Women civil rights movements
Rosa Parks, MLK, Malcolm X

Term 4:
Treatment of Aboriginals in colonial and early federal Australian history
The stolen generations (Cry me a fucking river)

Year 12 Modern History:


The whole year was really one long continuous subject so I don't really remember what I learnt when, just what I learnt, so I'll try and list it off in Historical orders (Although this is not the order I learnt it in)

Foundation of Islam
Basic beliefs and structure of Islam
Islamic conquests of MENA
The Crusades
Rise of Secular Arab Nationalism (Sadat, Nasser)
Fall of Secular Arab Nationalism
Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism
Iranian Revolution
Rise of Neo-conservatism
The Reagan Revolution
The first Gulf War
9/11
Reaction to 9/11
Invasion of Afghanistan and War on Terror
Preface to Invasion of Iraq
Invasion of Iraq
Occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan
Hunt for Osama Bin Laden
Ongoing conflict in the Middle East
I'd love to know what they're teaching them post-Arab spring, Libya, Syria and the refugee crisis.