Understanding People in Their Own Time
Understand that people in the past saw the world very differently from us — judge their actions by the context they lived in, not only by today's values
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If your child learns that people in the past did something that seems wrong today, can they think about why those people might have believed it was normal or right at the time?
Understand that people in the past saw the world very differently from us — judge their actions by the context they lived in, not only by today's values
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- Historical Empathy: A Cognitive-Affective Theory (ERIC)
- Year 4-6 historical empathy research
“If your child learns that people in the past did something that seems wrong today, can they think about why those people might have believed it was normal or right at the time?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Meta
- Subject
- History
- Domain
- Historical Thinking
- Age range
- Ages 8–10