I just read in another RG thread that the subject "history" for the education of primary school teachers has recently been dropped (in a certain state). After having taken part in RG-discussions calling for more IT, more knowledge from economics, computer science, medicine and law to be offered in the curriculum of schools, I am concerned that this could be to the detriment of the subject "history". Is my concern justified?
ICT can be a means to an end; to provide our students with life skills and socio-cultural information. history is a cultural heritage that should be preserved and transmitted . ICT devices can foster the process.
I think that education is facing challenges and new movements that should be studied carefully to determine the needs of modern societies. This does not mean that stakeholders should change education priorities rapidly. This needs a consensus agreement.
ICT can be a means to an end; to provide our students with life skills and socio-cultural information. history is a cultural heritage that should be preserved and transmitted . ICT devices can foster the process.
Farangis Shahidzade
I have the same feeling, and I think that history is not only cultural legacy, but part of our identity, as society, group, family or individual. In the face of the terrible things that are happening in the world today, we often ask ourselves the question: What is the human being? I maintain that without the history in which we recognize ourselves as human beings and have a consciousness of ourselves, we cannot answer the question. History tells us who we are.
History and civics(Social Science ) subject should be compulsory to know cultural part of our identity and then afterwords IT.
Dear Colleagues, many thanks for your interest and your comments. I am thankful for your attitude to valuate history as an important subject-matter of curriculum. My comment at the moment is influenced by another discussion: the future of school, curriculum, teaching-learning process etc in taking into account that a new generation of robots will conquer school as an determined factor of living together in schools. What about the subject-matter "history" than? I can imagine, that we get historical programs for instance with historical voices of politicians, and leaders and important historical documents which can be reproduced by robots. But such utopic ideas we should also take somewhat with self-ironic feelings. My answers in the respected thread about helpful rooters in school - here are they quoted.
1) For example, the teacher can check whether the child has learned the vocabulary correctly, even with optimal pronunciation (if the robot has been given the textbook-programme to "eat" beforehand). Those students who have done everything correctly will be informed by the robot, which will then ask if the student would rather have a handshake, a hug or a kiss in the tub as a reward. Then you just have to press a black, green or red button.
2) The robot is good for class discipline: If the teacher has to go to the headmaster and the class gets restless, the teacher simply presses the corresponding discipline program. There should also be little surprises in his program with which undisciplined students are called to account or have to fear something unpleasant. If the children are obedient, the robot can sing or dance something very beautiful.
3) The robot can also very well settle small social conflicts among the pupils, but also if there are differences of opinion among the teachers.
4) If there are cases of learning difficulties, the robot can always make an anamnesis with the child and his parents while the teacher is still teaching in another class. The teacher only has to pull the sheet with the case description, the diagnosis and the therapy proposal of the robot out of the printer.
5) Cooking coffee and fetching rolls for the big break in earlier times used to be done by the school janitor, now the robot takes care of everything. He also makes sure that the pupils leave the classroom without any paper lying on the floor and that no one has forgotten to take anything with them. But these are only suggestions for the beginning.
6) When the age of robots really starts, the teachers will only have to spend half the time in school, half the time off: the robot takes care of the introductions and supervises the tests. However, the teachers only get half of their previous salary. The robot costs are not quite low.
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