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Until 15th century, the history subject was not
introduced to the first medieval institution governed by the Roman Catholic
Church, whereas other subjects (medicine, law, arts, maths and literature) had
introduced in 11th century. Therefore, the curriculum for such subject has not
settled yet for how the local and world included. In my perspective,
segmenting the history subject is somewhat necessary but, whether it would be
mainly focus on whole local history is questionable.
By teaching local history to children, it could bring the
knowledge in various areas such as geographical, social and political
involvement which can be based for human being. Since the local history shows
the development of local government and local area's events, children may be
able to see the root of their heredity and this can be considered as the
fundamental duty for the citizens.
In contrast, learning world history would be beneficial
for children to grab the historical events involving political, social and
geological knowledge to understand the whole picture of history. Some events were
occurred sequentially and in parallel, so it is important to ensuring children
to be able to see the big picture of history by seeing the world events as well
as the local events.
In conclusion, it can be the local history would be the
most important for the children's interest and for understanding the root of
family's history. However, learning the world history paralelled to the local
history would be considered as the optimum curriculum, because it can provide
the wider scope of historical views to children. |