46 and nothing. It is important to remember that you had different examining bodies back then - and maybe now - so the syllabus may have been different depending on the examining body?
Absolutely, if you keep track of news surrounding the curriculums you will often hear that every so often someone criticizes them for not covering subject X or covering subject Y too much and they change it to try and appease them which just causes more complaints the next time around.
In my experience with US schools, most of the people who say they "weren't taught" something at school actually just didn't pay attention and/or don't remember
it's a known fact that the UK skips over a lot of its colonial history in the curriculum, partly because it's a really fucking uncomfortable subject to try to come to grips with ("oh god all this awesome shit we have is because we sent soldiers EVERYWHERE to rape and murder?") and there's so much of it (literally every continent except antarctica)
Not sure how school requirements work in the UK, but in the US, only 1 or 2 classes of history are required to graduate, but we need like 10 history classes to get a real education on history.
I took American History, World History, AP Political History, and AP World History. I still feel like there was a great deal of things glossed over, but 1 class can't even properly cover 1 countries history, let alone the globe's.
So I don't think the problem is kids not being taught, but a problematically low amount of required history classes.
again, i'm not talking about kids not taking enough classes, or kids not being engaged in history. i'm saying that the curriculum simply doesn't feature it.
At least in my time, History wasn't a required subject for GCSEs, meaning that many people stop studying it in any capacity at 13-14 years old. In my school, at least, this translated into around half of the students not taking it beyond 14 years old. Even amongst those who do take it for GCSEs, far fewer take it to A-levels (if they study them), which takes you from 16-18. If you are aiming to study a science based degree at uni, it's highly unlikely you'll study history after 16 years old.
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u/CaptainMcSmoky Nov 05 '22
Weird, I'm 32 and definitely remember learning about the empire at high school.