The commercialisation and politicisation of Gallipoli has caused many Australians to be wary of centenary coverage, one historian says.
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Catherine Smyth's curator insight,
March 23, 2015 6:59 PM
Personal stories help young children learn about the past. Use historical narratives in the classroom to humanise historic events like war. In the book "What is History Teaching?, Chris Husbands describes how 'Storied thinking' is a central tool in the teaching and learning of history. Husbands suggests the teacher's role is to:
Catherine Smyth's curator insight,
March 23, 2015 7:00 PM
Personal stories help young children learn about the past. Use historical narratives in the classroom to humanise significant events like war. In the book "What is History Teaching?, Chris Husbands describes how 'Storied thinking' is a central tool in the teaching and learning of history. Husbands suggests the teacher's role is to:
intoHistory's curator insight,
August 7, 2014 3:45 AM
More than 60,000 Australian boys lost their life on the European battle fields 100 years ago... What a price for a peace that took 20 more years to achieve. Appaling tragedy. Respect, gratitude and humility.
Sue Taylor's curator insight,
March 20, 2016 11:40 PM
A new exhibition of personal diaries from World War 1. |
Alyssa Dorr's curator insight,
December 17, 2014 11:19 AM
Europe's landscape is still scared by World War I. Many photographs are shown in this article of abandoned battlefields that reveal the trenches scars. It has been at least a century since the Great War, yet the country is still buried with scars. In this image by Irish landscape photographer Michael St. Maur Sheil, you can trace grass-covered trenches and pockmarks from exploded bombshells. Millions of men were injured or even killed right in this very spot, which was the first major British offensive of the war. Artists take these photographs to document the legacy that was left on that battlefield. Sheil was very famous for photographs such as these. He includes seventy-nine contemporary photographs of World War I battlefields and has them on display in Paris along the wrought-iron fence of Luxembourg Gardens.
Jacob Conklin's curator insight,
February 12, 2015 6:57 PM
People often forget that the world doesn't reset after a major war. World War I was one of the most destructive wars in Europe's long history, not only in terms of human casualties, but also in terms of physical destruction. The heavy use of trench warfare left an everlasting mark on the landscape. Soldiers dug trenches that were miles long and use them for protection from enemy fire. Any observer can see that bullets do not turn corners and that a soldier can hide within the trench and be impervious to gunfire. There is one major weakness in this tactic that explains the dips in the landscape surrounding the trenches. In order to reach the enemy soldiers, bomb and mortar attacks were very effective. The everlasting geographical scaring of the land tells the history of what took place in an area, from wars in Europe to glacial movement in Alaska. The landscape never forgets.
Brian Wilk's curator insight,
March 28, 2015 10:11 AM
This particular landscape shows trenches and the remains of bombed out fields where one million British soldiers where either killed or wounded by the Germans. I cannot fathom the heartache and loss that these families must have experienced and in some cases still are. How many future leaders or scientists or Nobel Peace Prize winners were killed here? How might the world be a better place but for the butchering of these soldiers? Multiply that though by the hundreds of wars fought throughout civilization. We could be so far advanced as a society, instead we chose and continue to choose wars that contain costs we can't even quantify. I'd like to see cancer cells being destroyed, not people, housing being built instead of propaganda, education instead of anarchy. No more scars, let's build beautiful monuments to society, like peace.
Timothy Joel Dagwell's curator insight,
April 7, 2014 9:39 AM
During World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said these famous words, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Though the means, and often the ends too, of war are tragic, this quote rings very true for us today who live in the freedom given to us by the few who have laid down their lives for their nation.
This resource is a highly interactive one, which was made to compliment the Australians at War TV series and is dedicated to those who served their nation of the past one hundred years. There is a clear link here, then, between this resource and the subject matter "world achievements by Australians, past and present" of outcome CCS3.1 of the Human Society & its Environment K-6 Syllabus (Board of Studies NSW, 1998, pp. 59-60).
When speaking about the nature and purpose of ICT resources, Gilbert and Hoepper (2011, p. 181) argue that though new technologies can make a substantial contribution to teaching and learning, they must be used judiciously and imaginatively if this potential contribution is to be realised. In light of this argument, one idea for the use of this resource is to split students into small groups of approximately two to three students and have each group investigate a different aspect of the content in the resource (e.g. different years, different people, etc.). Then, after the investigation is complete, have the groups form "expert groups" with students from other groups and share what they have learned.
References: Board of Studies NSW (1998). Human Society and its Environment K-6 Syllabus. Retrieved fromhttp://k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/go/hsie/
Gilbert, R., & Hoepper, B. (2011). Teaching society and environment. (4th ed.). South Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia. |
The historian Claire Wright argues, "Anzac-ery" surrounding commemorations has moved Anzac from fact to legend, then myth and that many Australians are suffering from 'Gallipoli' fatigue. She also claims Australia is spending more money on its WW1 commemorations than in any country. If this is true, why?