[IAEP] Historian David McCullough endorses constructionism?

[Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn]

in all the world, the story is told by those who won the war ...Slavery and Civil War? It has to do?Activity Library should bring: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ...

> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:34:23 -0500
> From: nicestep at gmail.com
> To: sverma at sfsu.edu
> CC: ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu; gonzalo at laptop.org; yamaplos at gmail.com; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; support-gang at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Historian David McCullough endorses constructionism?
> 
> In the United States teaching History is very political.  A little
> less than half the country believes that our civil war had nothing to
> do with slavery, that our founding fathers were deeply religious and
> wanted to create a Christian nation, and many other things that are
> not true.  School boards may require children to be taught these
> things, and they will not approve textbooks that have anything
> negative to say about our history.  As a result the approved textbooks
> of U.S. History are very dull reading.
> 
> If someone was foolish enough to allow me to teach a History class to
> impressionable children there is a wealth of good material in Project
> Gutenberg and the Internet Archive that I could have them do reports
> on.  Thomas Paine, for instance, is considered a hero to the
> conservatives here for writing the pamphlet Common Sense.  Their heads
> would explode if they read some of his later writings, and PG has
> them.
> 
> I do think that a U.S. History class could be valuable and enjoyable
> for children if it was allowed to be.
> 
> James Simmons
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> It is a nagging feeling I have that in the lack of understanding of cause
> >> and effect lies a lot of what is wrong everywhere, especially in countries
> >> that do not seem to be able ever to get out of the "subdesarrollo"
> >> (underdevelopment) - and also help us to avoid debt ...
> >>
> >> I see History and Science as venues where cause and effect can be learned,
> >> understood, and hopefully become part of what people are empowered with.
> >>
> >> Interactive History can make that subject be useful, beyond the traditional
> >> memorizing of dates and events, and actually start reflections of the "what
> >> if?" type
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Yama,
> >
> > The are very good observations indeed. Not only does interactive
> > history provide context, it provides a flow that explains how the
> > world came about to being what it is today (not good or bad, but just
> > how it is).
> >
> > Growing up in India, we were told how Sanskrit is the mother of all
> > languages worldwide and nothing was ever before it. This is of course
> > a very ethnocentric view, and is quite common around the world, but we
> > were not allowed to question it. We also did not get to ask the how or
> > why. For instance, learning about the origins of Brahmi script, which
> > is considered to be the root of many South Asian languages, is very
> > interesting because it connects Brahmi to Phoenecian and/or Aramaic
> > (not to be confused with the language Amharic). Brahmi did not happen
> > in a vacuum! Languages travel, and the world is a lot more fluid than
> > a political map :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script
> >
> > I also find that learning about cause and effect helps in
> > understanding the difference between causality and correlation -
> > perhaps the most important lesson I learned in my doctoral program :-)
> >
> > cheers,
> > Sameer
> >
> >>
> >> On 06/19/2011 11:19 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> >>
> >> Good reading, thanks.
> >>
> >> Gonzalo
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Nicholas Doiron <ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This interview in the Wall Street Journal discusses history education and
> >>> a couple of interesting, interactive lessons which could be programmed. We
> >>> don't have many history activities in Sugar
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432304576369421525987128.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_opinion
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Nick Doiron
> >>>
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