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user-inactivated  ·  3603 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kleinbl00's Red Pill Reading List: Geopolitic

Can't. I found a lot of "education science" type literature. Including one really great teaching model: start in the present, isolate some important events, then sort of create one of those old Inspiration 6-style idea maps going backward in time. So midterm elections inspires discussions going back to last generation, maybe about Clinton, and then from Clinton you spin off to foreign policy or presidential scandals or the environment, and from there etc. It all seems relevant to students but it still takes you back hundreds of years by the time the semester's over. Basically this:

http://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-2000/a-teaching-strategy-teaching-us-history-backwards





kleinbl00  ·  3602 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, this ain't it. This is remedial college social studies, and it presents history as a longitudinal "what did your parents think" problem. There's no attempt to, say, link Reagan's attitude against the Soviets to even Reagan's role as the mouthpiece of the HUAC - it's "what do you think of Reagan? Well, what did your parents think of LBJ? See? History!"

user-inactivated  ·  3602 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Extrapolate. I think the idea can be applied to teaching history backwards. Just by following causality back through time. Obama? What caused Obama. Bush? What caused neoconservatism. And on back.

kleinbl00  ·  3602 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We agree on this. However, you said "people do that all the time." To date, I've seen no evidence. I'd like to believe it because I think the idea has merit. But this is not an example of what I'm talking about.

user-inactivated  ·  3602 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Did notttttt! Just that I've heard the idea put in practice before.

kleinbl00  ·  3602 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fair enough. I remain disappointed in your research. ;-)

kleinbl00  ·  3603 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Will reflect back on this when there isn't dinner to make. Thanks.