tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post7296252842619226688..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Turning The Lights Out – by Eleanor UpdaleMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-696122643955023372011-10-26T09:25:53.144+01:002011-10-26T09:25:53.144+01:00As someone who has been involved with educational ...As someone who has been involved with educational publishers in developing history series for young children, I can hardly believe this in on sale in 2011. A great deal of care went on developing accurate, beautiful and interesting history books that were accessible to children. I hope someone at the Museum of Scotland takes another look at this book and has second thoughts about selling it.Barbara Mitchelhillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-824040141622712482011-10-25T23:59:11.896+01:002011-10-25T23:59:11.896+01:00I understand this all too well. I was taught by a ...I understand this all too well. I was taught by a slew of poorly trained teachers who were sent to rural areas because they were considered to be "not good enough" to teach in city schools. My father (as principal) had the horrendous task of trying to train them on the job. I ended up loathing maths and science and learning things like history from other sources. It is not an education I would wish on any child.catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-60610164804631864382011-10-25T23:22:33.718+01:002011-10-25T23:22:33.718+01:00For the lights to be going out, somebody must have...For the lights to be going out, somebody must have switched them on again.<br /><br />I have never forgotten the history teacher who almost ruined the subject for me...or the teacher who brought the love back.<br /><br />Okay for children. Yep. I can believe that as the explanation.nonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00415222406280230021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-79486881552067740232011-10-25T19:52:19.810+01:002011-10-25T19:52:19.810+01:00Yes - I think this is the 'scrap-bag' scho...Yes - I think this is the 'scrap-bag' school of history. It sounds appalling, and yet goes with the idea that you can teach people about literature by giving them a 'reader' so that they can dip into a few authors and say they understand Dickens after reading a page of Edwin Drood. Or is it:'Channel-flicking history?' <br /><br />I did find Penelope Leach very helpful myself, and never thought I was a doormat parent, but I disagreed with her that one shouldn't have handknit jumpers for kids, and her advice on night feeds was pretty rubbish. But I liked the way she explained how a kid's mind works. She is more systematic than this museum publication sounds to be..Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-17467559655866751262011-10-25T15:50:47.518+01:002011-10-25T15:50:47.518+01:00I once got made redundant from the Education Dept ...I once got made redundant from the Education Dept at the National Museum of Scotland. Feel quite smug about that now.<br /><br />(actually loved working there and go to visit whenever I'm back. Picnic on the roof terrace is lovely)Elen Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00445201005486291612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-73968308490584063492011-10-25T15:09:24.265+01:002011-10-25T15:09:24.265+01:00Sounds like a case of someone skimming through the...Sounds like a case of someone skimming through the pictures and over the few words and thinking "That's okay for children."Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-32176065805172810762011-10-25T11:41:40.745+01:002011-10-25T11:41:40.745+01:00OMG, as the young say! Thanks for diligently typin...OMG, as the young say! Thanks for diligently typing out all the horrid bits you did...we can now reel with you. Let us hope someone removes the book quietly from the shop....adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-7598647742739680352011-10-25T10:33:14.837+01:002011-10-25T10:33:14.837+01:00This sounds a shocker of a book and one that woul...This sounds a shocker of a book and one that would make my daughters' brilliant and exacting history teacher - who made the potentially dry subject 'the rise and fall of the Liberal Party in the early 20th century' fascinating to them - tear her hair in anguish. It's sad that history should be presented as a sort of rummage stall - burrow through it, tossing things aside, and come up with a 'factoid'.Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.com