Commemoration – remembering and marking your past – makes an important contribution...
Commemoration – remembering and marking your past – makes an important contribution to our sense of community. Written texts, memorials, letters and photographs can all serve to commemorate events, people and values we wish to remember from our past.
By the end of this unit you should have
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Commemoration – remembering and marking your past – makes an important contribution to our sense of community. Written texts, memorials, letters and photographs can all serve to commemorate events, people and values we wish to remember from our past.
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A very useful summary of some of the issues behind studying history. I particularly liked the exercise suggesting viewing a local memorial and will look at these memorials in a different way from now on. I would have liked more discussion on the value of learning facts and felt this section strayed towards the common contemporary error of not understanding fully the value of rote learning (prior to and in addition to skills of analysis and criticism.)
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