how to make history a interesting subject?state why is boring?
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I don’t think we should ‘make’ history anything; there’s been enough fabrication and distortion already.
If you’re asking how history can be taught in an interesting way; I have one word for you. Just one word. Context. History is often taught as a series of dates and events: 1215, 1492, 1776 and so just becomes a boring task of memorization. How did it change the world? What are the effects that can still be seen? What else was happening at the time?
Get the kids out of their seats! Let them interact with period artifacts and replicas or, have them put on re-enactments. Encourage them for one day to only eat what foods would have been available to a neolithic farmer or hunter gatherer.
And teach it like it actually happened, not the neutered version to be found in textbooks. The Revolutionary War becomes a lot more interesting to young kids when they realize it was over currency and not tea. Columbus’ voyage to America has a lot more depth when placed in context with the expulsion of all peoples identifying as Jewish from Spain.
Of course, you can’t reach everybody, some people just genuinely aren’t interested. There is certainly nothing you could do to make math interesting to me. Math theory maybe but, not actual math.
I’m not a teacher, I have no accreditation or degree and my only teaching experience was in Cambodia. So, grain of salt.
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