This provocation is concerned with the purpose of history education in England at present. @ArthurJChapman asks if this purpose too is narrow and whether educators should look to understanding of variable ways in which the past is made present in contemporary culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO3z9voyvCU&feature=youtu.be
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Arie Wilschut
2/7/2020 11:43:40 am
Very much agree with Arthur: history should be a tool to understand how we humans exist in time, which implies that we connect the past with the present and the future. We have done some research in the Netherlands about the effects of explicitly connecting the past with the present and the future:
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Arthur Chapman
6/7/2020 10:01:03 pm
Many thanks for these observations, Arie. I'm delighted that you agree with the overall argument.
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