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scubadiver
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 Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject: Schoolchildren pretend to be 'terrorists' |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/11/ncivit as511.xml
| Quote: | Teenagers are being asked to write about the September 11 atrocities from the point of view of the terrorists as part of a GCSE course.
The most popular history syllabus in the country requires 15- and 16-year-olds to consider the motives of extremists who planned the attacks.
In a course taken by more than 70,000 children in England, pupils are also presented with a series of quotations from Osama bin Laden justifying terrorist attacks on New York, Washington, Bali and Madrid.
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The Schools History Project, a Government-backed programme, is studied by a third of GCSE students in England and features a section on "world terrorism since 9/11/01". Resources for teachers show terrorists and their victims as having - broadly - equal points of view, said Mr McGovern. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject: Re: Education article in today's Telegraph |
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| scubadiver wrote: | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/11/ncivit as511.xml
| Quote: | Teenagers are being asked to write about the September 11 atrocities from the point of view of the terrorists as part of a GCSE course.
The most popular history syllabus in the country requires 15- and 16-year-olds to consider the motives of extremists who planned the attacks.
In a course taken by more than 70,000 children in England, pupils are also presented with a series of quotations from Osama bin Laden justifying terrorist attacks on New York, Washington, Bali and Madrid.
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The Schools History Project, a Government-backed programme, is studied by a third of GCSE students in England and features a section on "world terrorism since 9/11/01". Resources for teachers show terrorists and their victims as having - broadly - equal points of view, said Mr McGovern. |
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No agenda there then...
History is not written by who is right but who is left.
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We have all got to be aware of the shi te they are teaching our children.
An example from the Schools History Project - 911 syllabus:
| Osama Bin Laden wrote: | “I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only” he said, according to a US government translation. “This is all that we had hoped for.”
The Bush administration hopes the tape will convince sceptics, particularly in the Muslim and Arab worlds, of bin Laden’s complicity in the attacks |
No kidding.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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They've linked to the FBI Osama Bin Laden Wanted page.
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MURDER OF U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; CONSPIRACY TO MURDER U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; ATTACK ON A FEDERAL FACILITY RESULTING IN DEATH
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Oh if only my grandson were a few years older I could've helped him with his history study!
Don't think he would have passed though. lol Starting the essay "9/11 was an inside job and the BBC had prior knowledge" may be a real loss in the exam stakes. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:49 am Post subject: OCT propganda being set as exam questions |
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| Quote: | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/11/ncivit as511.xml
No longer a need to know much about the past
By Graeme Paton, Education Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:22am BST 11/06/2007
Teenagers are being asked to write about the September 11 atrocities from the point of view of the terrorists as part of a GCSE course.
The most popular history syllabus in the country requires 15- and 16-year-olds to consider the motives of extremists who planned the attacks.
In a course taken by more than 70,000 children in England, pupils are also presented with a series of quotations from Osama bin Laden justifying terrorist attacks on New York, Washington, Bali and Madrid.
Chris McGovern, the chairman of the History Curriculum Authority, says the modern history curriculum is obsessed with "independent thinking" at the expense of traditional values - such as a chronology of the past.
Writing in The Corruption of the Curriculum, he said: "The New History idea that knowledge of the past should be constructed by pupils for themselves is seductive because it appears to be a way of encouraging independent thinking.
"The reality, of course, is that the evidence presented to pupils by textbooks and by teachers has to be carefully selected.
"In this sense, the process of teaching history has become highly manipulative. Forming opinions about events and personalities on the basis of a scattering of pre-selected and often doctored sources can undermine any balanced understanding."
The Schools History Project, a Government-backed programme, is studied by a third of GCSE students in England and features a section on "world terrorism since 9/11/01". Resources for teachers show terrorists and their victims as having - broadly - equal points of view, said Mr McGovern.
The history project website carries a warning insisting that "analysis of the historical roots of these events does not in any way imply sympathy for terrorist actions".
But Mr McGovern said: "What is clear is that these teaching materials include substantial evidence to justify terrorism. Can one feel that pupils presented with this material are going to be able to come to a balanced historical conclusion? Should such topics even be taught as a part of school history lessons?"
Mr McGovern said there had been a shift towards a more "skills-based" approach to history - using the subject to evaluate evidence and empathise with people in the past. But it has led to a destruction of pupils' knowledge about key events.
According to the Government's national curriculum document, history should be taught through four "diversity" lenses - "the social, cultural, religious and ethnic diversity of the societies studied".
"Pupils can gain high marks without actually knowing much about the past," he said
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Ooops! I will merge...
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I don't beleive any of the sh!te we are told anymore  |
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