Understanding People in Their Own Time
History · Historical Thinking · meta
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
What mastery looks like
- Historical Empathy: A Cognitive-Affective Theory (ERIC)
- Year 4-6 historical empathy research
Check your understanding
If Understanding People in Their Own Time 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?
Prerequisites
Required first
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