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Peter B Freshwater MA, DipLib, FSA Scot Email: [log in to unmask]On 25/02/2013 09:54, hakim adi wrote:
[log in to unmask]" type="cite">These comments are very interesting and important but they are not being presented in the form of proposals or amendments to the draft. I think it would be much more helpful if they were, then we can all see how these views would reflect themselves in the alternative curriculum. Discussion, criticism and comment is vital but we are now engaged in collectively drafting an alternative.
What also has to be kept in mind, I think, is not whether we want the history of Africa or Asia to be taught but establishing which aspects of Africa's 250,000 year history might be useful to a citizen of modern Britain.
I look forward to seeing some proposals incorporated into the draft!
Hakim
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:32:50 +0000
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Subject: Re: Alternative History Curriculum
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In Britain, 'Asian' has come to mean 'South Asian'. In America, 'Asian' has come to mean what Britain calls 'East Asian'. In Australia, 'Asian' has come to mean what Britain calls 'South East and East Asian'. Since 'Asian' is the highest common factor (there - that dates my mathematics education, doesn't it?), perhaps we ought to ensure that it covers the people from everywhere between the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
Peter
Peter B Freshwater MA, DipLib, FSA Scot Email: [log in to unmask]On 25/02/2013 08:44, msherwood wrote:
[log in to unmask]">Yes, of course. But I doubt that we should be calling it ‘Asian’. A rather large continent, with many histories. I know it is ponderous, but the area we are concerned with is ‘Indian sub-continent’, no?