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Amy Haggstrom

Heaven on Earth . For Teachers | PBS - 0 views

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    Capitalism vs Communism Russian Revolution, American Labor, Canadian Socialism
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History - Revision Video - Czechoslovakia and the Prague Spring 1968 - 1 views

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Thomas D. Fallace | Historiography and Teacher Education: Reflections on an Experimenta... - 1 views

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    "http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/42.2/fallace.html From The History Teacher Vol. 42, Issue 2. Viewed February 1, 2010 2:50 EST Presented online in association with the History Cooperative. http://www.historycooperative.org Historiography and Teacher Education: Reflections on an Experimental Course Thomas D. Fallace University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia IN RECENT YEARS, professional historians have encouraged policy makers to increase content requirements in history in hopes of improving the overall teaching of history in American schools. Support for such proposals has come from many sources. The origins of this movement can be traced to the 1983 National Commission on Excellence in Education's Nation at Risk report, which declared that the ignorance of American youth was at a crisis level. E. D. Hirsch reiterated this concern in his best-selling Cultural Literacy, in which he also decried the lack of content knowledge of American students. Further studies, such as Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn's What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? and the Bradley Commission's Historical Literacy, argued that students were particularly deficient in historical knowledge. As a result, in the 1990s, many historians and policy makers endorsed a strengthening of history teacher requirements and the addition of expanded required historical content in the curriculum.1 1 In the 1980s and 1990s, new advances in cognitive and learning theory also supported increased disciplinary knowledge for teachers. In 1987, Lee Shulman's influential article, "Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of a New Reform," introduced the concept of pedagogical content knowledge-"a special amalgam of content and pedagogy that is uniquely the province of teachers, their own special form of professional understanding."2 Shulman argued that effective history teachers draw upon techniques and understandings unique to the discipline, not upon a generic set of instructional tools t
Ian Gabrielson

The long history of Manning Clark | The Australian - 0 views

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  • McKenna's An Eye for Eternity deals with Clark's many infidelities with women other than his long-suffering wife, Dymphna, and the role of a succession of other women as his muses, some of them not sexually consummated, such as his relationship with his research assistant and later controversial historian,
  • the main, An Eye for Eternity is a fine book. It is so much stronger in terms of sheer research and lucid writing style than Brian Matthews's overrated (in my opinion) 2008 biography, and perhaps is even better, and more convincing, than Stephen Holt's less ambitious, but important, 1999 effort, A Short History of Manning Clark.
  • McKenna does not shy away from the fact Clark's "historical method" in writing A History of Australia embodied that of a novelist. In writing, he "pushed beyond the particulars in order to write history that revealed universal truth -- not historical fiction but fictional history". This attitude was true of Clark from an early age. Thus aged 23, while at Balliol College, Oxford, he wrote:
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  • I feel quite convinced that Australian history has been betrayed by [historians]. I believe quite passionately that Australia is a "weird" country and that its weirdness has never been portrayed except in landscape painting
  • nevitably McKenna's approach raises some questions. The fact is he has acted as a gatekeeper to all Clark's papers and has made particular decisions about what to allow open to public gaze.
  • ection on Meeting Soviet Man, arguably Clark's worst book and certainly his most compromised, is much too brief, as is McKenna's exploration about where Clark stood vis a vis the Soviet Union. Detailing a three-week sojourn in Moscow and Leningrad in November 1958 with fellow writers Jim Devaney and hardline Communist Party member Judah Waten, the book,
  • published in early 1960, is truly awful in its acceptance of Soviet propaganda and its avoidance of acknowledging many unpalatable truths.
  • But McKenna's careful reading of Clark's diaries, and of correspondence between Clark and Dymphna, demonstrate that it was impossible for Clark to have been in Bonn on the morning of November 10, 1938.In fact, it was Dymphna who witnessed the immediate aftermath of Kristallnacht, and it was in Dymphna's letters to Clark, who was not in continental Europe at all but in Oxford, that described the carnage that she had seen. In one of her letters to her wayward husband, Dymphna included an article about the event by Joseph Goebbels to which, years later, Clark referred in his claim to be present in Bonn on November 10, 1938. As Clark's own diary confirms, he did not arrive in Bonn until November 26 -- more than two weeks after Kristallnacht.
  • o answer his rhetorical question of why could not Clark have simply told the terrible story
  • hrough Dymphna, McKenna answers that, "most likely Clark, the great historian, needed to be there to make the parable of Kristallnacht more powerful, to draw from the events the great lessons he had undoubtedly drawn". Then McKenna concludes: "In this sense, there was no fabrication."
  • The impact of Kristallnacht on Clark was, he argues, "genuine and profound, somehow pushing aside the fact that he was not physically present". After pointing out that, just as Clark maintained he could not write about past events unless he visited the places where they physically occurred, so too "he felt he could not speak of the significance of Kristallnacht for his intellectual and spiritual development without having been present".
  • Then McKenna adds that, in "a lifelong partnership, a couple's separate memories can sometimes become one, and through Dymphna, Clark no doubt felt he was there in Bonn on the morning after Kristallnacht".
  • Despite McKenna's careful research and his seven years of fine labour, key questions about Clark remain unanswered. Where he stood in relation to communism is one of many. McKenna argues that Clark's "admiration for Lenin and the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was driven by his conviction that the revolution contained 'the promise of better things for mankind"'. It was for this reason, McKenna says, "that he often attended ceremonies held at the Soviet embassy in Canberra to commemorate the anniversary of the Russian Revolution -- not because he was a communist but because he was an idealist"
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A Case Study on Trianon - 0 views

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      Notion of Hungarian Nationalism, irrendentism (One who advocates the recovery of territory culturally or historically related to one's nation but now subject to a foreign government.)
  • This pamphlet described the Hungarians as a "nation of mediators" and Hungary as a "link" between the East and the West. Historic Hungary was also characterized as a "community of nations" that are bound together by common history, common traditions and common interests.17
  • While trying to apply the principle of national self-determination to Britain's adversaries in the war, however, Toynbee was reluctant to do so in the case of the Entente states and their allies. In the latter case, political and economic considerations seem to have taken precedence over ethnic matters.
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  • Although obviously dejected as was virtually every Hungarian, Homan ended his essay of 1920 on a positive note by professing his faith in the unique destiny of his nation in the lands conquered by their ancestors: "In the course of the fifteen hundred years that preceded the Hungarian conquest, about thirty nations have conquered ... various regions of our country. Yet, none of them was able to establish a lasting rule. ... Hungary may be dismembered, divided and truncated, its political unity may be shattered, but the country's natural geographical and economic unity, and its people's cultural unity, which is the product of a long historical evolution, are indissoluble. For this reason, its political unity is bound to be restored within a short period by the mighty powers of the laws of nature and of history."36
  • Trianon in Interwar Hungarian Historiography
Amy Haggstrom

BBC NEWS | Europe | Mapping the fall of communism - 1 views

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