In Russian schools the emphasis of the world history course will shift more from Europe to Asia, Africa and Latin America
In Russian schools the emphasis of the world history course will shift more from Europe to Asia, Africa and Latin America
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Head of the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-chair of the Russian Historical Society (RHRS) Alexander Chubarian said that the developed concept of teaching general history course will not focus on Europe and will pay more attention to Asia, Africa and Latin America. It was reported on Monday by the newspaper “Vedomosti” with reference to the academician.
According to Chubaryan, the authors of the new concept, which is almost completed, decided to make the course less “Eurocentric” and to pay more attention to Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The concept defines the main approaches to the teaching of general history and contains a historical and cultural standard with a list of the main events, dates and personalities from the history course from primitive society to the present day, which schoolchildren need to know.
According to Chubarian, it is expected that a new generation of textbooks on world history will be created on the basis of the historical and cultural standard.
The academician said that after February 1, the concept will be sent for discussion to the experts at the RIO, the Russian Military Historical Society, the Russian Academy of Education, Moscow State University and Russian State Humanitarian University. By March 15, the collection of comments to the document will be completed, and in late April, the finalized draft will be sent to the RF Ministry of Education.
“I have an agreement with the Minister of Education that the concept will be accepted for approval,” said the academician, adding that “the main thing is to get a ready-made standard by September 1.”
Earlier Sergey Kravtsov, the head of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, reported on the Ministry’s intention to comprehensively update the system of history teaching at the level of general education.
That’s not a terrible idea. Always a good idea to include a more nuanced world history, if it’s very eurocentric.
We should be doing this too, both the good and the bad parts of non-European history
*OH NO!*
Ideally, history classes would include all of these areas.
That’s interesting.
Will students also be encouraged to learn English, Spanish, French and/or Mandarin to allow communication with the rest of the world they will be studying?
Currently, the Russian language (and script) acts as both a barrier and a limitation on Russians participating in international scholarship and broader culture.
It’s probably not a bad thing, given the kind of revisionist European history they must have been teaching.
And rightfully so.
My personal experience (Italian schools):
* 96% Western Europe
* 2% Mesopotamia/Egypt
* 1% Columbus
* 1% USA.
Finally they started to accept themself as asian country.
Good
Yeah sure. The actual curriculum will then look a little something like this:
* Russia was always the victim but still super mighty strong
* Stalin and Putin were and are always right
* Die for the motherland
* Everybody else is bad
> In Russian schools the emphasis of the world history course will shift more from Europe to Asia, Africa and Latin America
Translation: “shift more to Russia, Russia’s great developments in Asia, Russia’s great impact on Africa and on Latin America”.
Routine brainwashing.
Putin is woke now, SJWs have infiltrated the last bastion of white Christian culture, smh
/s