Tuesday is Levellers Day

[fsn]

We do have rather a lot of history to cover. There are all sorts of little niches that get downplayed - the Peasants' Revolt, King Aethelstan, the War of Jenkin's Ear.

I doubt anyone but we history buffs take in significant portions, and  must confess there are huge chunks of social history that pass me by.  

[Ithoriel]

I demand you cover 2000 years of local and world history from all angles and points of view, in a balanced and objective manner, and do so within a dozen 45 minute lessons!

What about the other 4000 or so? Slacker!

[toxicpixie]

Don't count, not British enough. You some kind of leftie revisionist, Ithoriel? You'll be on a watch list, mark my words...

[Roy]

Apologies Leman.

I can see that I may have sounded like I was blaming the teaching profession, or the syllabus. That wasn't my intention.

Yes, I've just, in fact, looked at my old schools -

They've listed the History courses as thus

Primary Education

Year 1
Local History Study

Year 2
The Great Fire of London
Famous People including Florence Nightingale

Year  3
Britain since the Stone Age (Neolithic Age)
Historical Disasters
The Romans

Year 4
Anglo Saxons, Scots & Vikings
Local History Study

Year 5
British History
Ancient Egypt

Year 6
Mayan Civilization
Ancient Greece

Secondary Education

Year 7
The Roman Empire
The Middle Ages
Local Enquiry – Richmond Castle (That's Richmond, North Yorkshire)

Year 8
The Tudors
The Stuarts
The British Empire
Slavery

Year 9
World War 1
World War 2
The Berlin Wall

& for GCSE, thus

Main Topics
Students follow AQA Modern World History. The syllabus is divided into 3 units:

Unit 1: Medicine Through Time, a Study in Development.
This unit contains three interrelated themes: Disease and Infection, Surgery and Anatomy and Public Health. The section on Disease and Infection emphasises changing ideas and practises in the cause, prevention and cure of diseases and infection. In Surgery and Anatomy there is a concentration on the changes in the understanding of anatomy and the practise of surgery. In Public Health there is a focus on Britain, the emphasis is on the changing role of Government, both local and national, in providing health facilities for the people. The unit covers the main changes from prehistoric times until the current day. Students will analyse and explain the following factors: war, superstition and religion, chance, government, science and technology and the role of the individual in helping or hindering change.

Unit 2: Germany, 1919-1945, an Enquiry in Depth.
Students focus on the growth of Nazism in Germany from 1918-1945. They look at the birth of the Weimar Republic following the Versailles Treaty and how civil unrest and economic and political instability led to the birth of the Nazi Party. This is developed further by looking in depth at the leadership of the party, Nazi views on specific social groups and their preparation and action in the 2nd World War.

Unit 3: Historical Enquiry, History Around Us.
This is the controlled assessment element of the course where two questions are asked about a local site, Richmond Castle, and how it has developed during the Middle Ages. Students are required to show independent research of the period and site to submit two structured answers under controlled conditions.

Those not familiar with British education, the above covers the compulsory schooling up to 15-16 years of age (GCSE being an optional subject for examination). Further education, after age 15-16, is optional and dependant upon exam results.

[Matt J]

I'm obviously around the same age as you as that was the syllabus I followed.

My kids at primary now are pretty much doing the same thing.

My eldest is just doing her GCSE's didn't take history (didn't fancy learning the cold war) but she told me how she learnt that the 1st world war would have been avoided if a guy (who she couldn't remember the name of) had decided not to go out for a sandwich that day....

[Leman]

I demand you cover 2000 years of local and world history from all angles and points of view, in a balanced and objective manner, and do so within a dozen 45 minute lessons!

Get cracking!

I'll be over here setting the other unreachable targets for the school to be sold off when you don't hit them.

Tooi late, it was sold off and demolished in 2012.

[Leman]

Yes, I AM bitter as f**k!

[toxicpixie]

You mean it wasn't turned into a revenue machine with crippling debt and used to fund Daves' Mates' disappearing pension plans by sucking tax money out the economy?! They missed a trick there!

Slackers.

[Ithoriel]

I'm so old that in my day The Roman Invasion of Britain was Modern Studies

[T13A]

Hi

My son, Jack, is in year six and did the Greeks in year 2 or 3. One of the highlights for me was going in to school to watch him and his entire class (girls and boys) wearing helmets and shields made out of cardboard and with lengths of wood (which may have been broom handles) acting as spears doing close order phalanx drill. All seemed to love it. At the time they were learning about the battle of Thermopylae. He was lucky at the time to have a very inspiring teacher who sadly left the profession a couple of years ago due to the way teaching of our young appeared to be going under the current government. 

Cheers Paul

[FierceKitty]

What about the other 4000 or so? Slacker!

Much of that is pre-history, is it not? Writing came on the scene fairly late.

[Ithoriel]

Much of that is pre-history, is it not? Writing came on the scene fairly late.

Writing (as opposed to proto-writing) started somewhere in the 35th Century BCE so I guess we can let them off with five centuries

[d_Guy]

So if I understand the discussion so far there will not be hordes of people in the UK wearing sea green ribbons today. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Maybe a Levellers Tshirt (the band that is)

[toxicpixie]

Today, I shall mostly be listening to music. Should slip nicely to "World turned upside down" as well

And the second one down...

http://revhammer.com/listen.htm