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[quote=Anonymous]A couple of issues. World history is vast and, unless you just cover as much as possible at a fairly superficial level, you ultimately have to be selective about what you teach. Secondly, you need to consider whether the purpose of teaching history is to impart specific knowledge about historic events or to teach particular skills like analysis, comparison, critiquing, etc. For example, my DS started at WIS last year and one of the units he studied in history was Revolutions. So I guess you could describe the approach as thematic. I think they basically compared and contrasted three revolutions - the US, Haiti and another (maybe France?). Potentially, you could have switched and studied revolutions in three other countries as the ultimate idea was to compare and contrast rather than related to the specific events.[/quote]
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