{"id":27826,"date":"2018-10-23T16:27:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T10:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27826"},"modified":"2018-10-23T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T10:57:12","slug":"why-history-matters-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-history-matters-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Why history matters so much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/why-history-matters-so-much\/article24763484.ece\">Why history matters so much<\/a><\/p>\n<p><u>Article: <\/u><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Krishna Kumar, former director of the NCERT, discussed the importance of history as a school subject.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>2. The subject was also discussed at the recently held conference in Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p><u>3. The\u00a0 author provides\u00a0 reasons for importance of studying history in schools:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It moulds the outlook of young generation.<\/li>\n<li>Create public ethos and influence culture.<\/li>\n<li>It shapes the perceptions of young because children are impressionable .<\/li>\n<li>Textbooks are viewed as officially approved documents.<\/li>\n<li>Publicly shared past imparts a collective memory and identity.<\/li>\n<li>It is important is shaping the larger political ethos of the country remains undiminished.<\/li>\n<li>Children depend on adults to learn about the past, that is what makes history the most challenging schools subject.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>4. The author also discussed the reasons, why history does not receive much importance it deserves:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The History cannot compete with Science subjects that shapes and control education today.<\/li>\n<li>The History syllabus and textbooks have political controversy in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5. The author also said that no country in the world is immune to debates about the past and the way it is presented to school children. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>America\u2019s discomfort with Hiroshima and Britain\u2019s discomfort with Gandhi continued to be reflected in their school syllabi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>6. The new history textbooks brought out by the NCERT from 2006 onwards, survived the change of government.<\/p>\n<p>7. They represent the spirit of the National Curriculum Framework, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>8. In most States, the use of history to build collective memory and identity continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why history matters so much Article: Krishna Kumar, former director of the NCERT, discussed the importance of history as a school subject. Important facts: 2. The subject was also discussed at the recently held conference in Kolkata. 3. The\u00a0 author provides\u00a0 reasons for importance of studying history in schools: It moulds the outlook of young&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-history-matters-so-much\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why history matters so much<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}