HISTORY
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Issue 88 2020
History School as we know it today is a very new development in human history. Primarily, long before education was governed, people lived in communities and children were encouraged to play and explore, acquiring valuable life skills along the way. Much of this relates to our ‘hunter gatherer’ background, when children would grow alongside adults who provided as individuals. Along came agriculture which changed the way
in which communities operated, meaning some were encouraged to adopt servient roles, and some were more reliant on others for food. This changed the relationship between work and play, making the two more separate. Learning skills became less connected to natural living, and instead became a product of instruction and tasks. Next came industries, and class systems, and from this mass rearrangement of human priorities mainstream school was born.
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