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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. |