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Why history needs an overhaul.(Education)
THE RECENT HISTORY SUMMIT in Canberra, in response to Prime Minister Howard's comments about history teaching lacking a strong narrative and failing to celebrate Australia's cultural heritage, has thrown the spotlight on how the subject is taught in schools. An evaluation is long overdue. Just as the "cultural Left" has transformed English teaching, especially literature, as a result of critical literacy and theory (see "Sociology One Meets Othello", Quadrant, July-August 2006) the more conservative view of history as a subject has also been radically transformed.
The Melbourne-based historian Stuart Macintyre, in The History Wars, describes more recent ...
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