Threshold concept 5 |
similarity and difference |
Time periods can be both similar and different at the same time
Threshold concept 5 |
similarity and difference |
In a nutshell. What is similarity and difference?The development of the historical second order concept of similarity and difference is also indispensable to developing knowledge and understanding of the past and should be an integral part of the History Threshold Concepts adopted by the department. It is suggested that a possible starting point for exploration of this History Threshold Concepts could be:
History is about people, groups, organisations and places and in constructing the past generalisations are made but these always result in stereotypical assumptions about people in the past rather than recognise and analyse the diversity of past experience. Not all people behaved and thought the same way. |
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TH What's the wisdom on similarity and difference?
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TH New Novice or Nervous?
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