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ERIC Number: EJ231104
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980
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What History Should We Teach?
Partington, Geoffrey
Oxford Review of Education, v6 n2 p157-76 1980
Reviews various frameworks used by history teachers to determine what should and should not be included in the history curriculum. Identifies various criteria of significance and advances a set of positive criteria, including effect on the development of rationality, human control over nature, personal autonomy, equality of consideration between persons, and personal security. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, History Instruction, Values
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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