{"id":4004,"date":"2011-03-18T12:39:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T16:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2017-06-01T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T17:02:25","slug":"history-teaching-curriculum-failing-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2011\/03\/history-teaching-curriculum-failing-pupils\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;History teaching curriculum failing pupils&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/horse-with-glasses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1672\" title=\"horse with glasses\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/horse-with-glasses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a>A new report from the UK has found students are being ill-served by &#8216;a curriculum which does not give them a \u201cchronological understanding\u201d of the subject.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/8377916\/History-teaching-fails-to-give-pupils-proper-view-of-the-past-says-watchdog.html\">History teaching fails to give pupils proper view of the past, says watchdog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ofsted report said many primary and secondary pupils are being let down by a curriculum which does not give them a \u201cchronological understanding\u201d of the subject &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Schoolchildren fail to grasp how events in history are linked because the subject is taught in \u201cepisodes\u201d, an official report has warned&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cfundamental weakness\u201d in primary schools was that some teachers \u201cdid not teach to establish a clear mental map of the past for pupils\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One reason <strong>&#8220;The Legend of the Great Horse&#8221;<\/strong> trilogy is a worthwhile read is its exploration of history in chronological order &#8212; with time lines before each new era &#8212; as it traces the development in horsemanship in civilization.<\/p>\n<p>The books of the trilogy convey accurate history in a fun and engaging story &#8230;\u00a0 the books give readers solid overview of history as they ride along with an exceptionally well-written and intelligent literary tale. <em>(For ages 14 and up)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reason &#8220;The Legend of the Great Horse&#8221; trilogy is a worthwhile read is its exploration of history in chronological order &#8212; with time lines before each new era &#8212; as it traces the development in horsemanship in civilization. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,174],"tags":[118,224,28,46,375,288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15152,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions\/15152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}