[EDEE 280] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (95 pages long!)
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Goals of social studies: to develop the necessary competencies and caring mindset for improving the quality of common future life. Or to develop competent and caring individuals who can make decent decisions for the common good. History is remembering and preserving the past through writing or oral traditions, symbols . When you record the past, its very subjective and biased. The way that facts are understood is what"s controversial about history. The continuum of events leading from the past to the present and into the future. You want to have a larger meaning of things and see where you are in the world. A sense of where you"re coming from and where you"re going when time progresses. The past can help us see the world differently. What happens when we bring all 3 elements together (imagining the past, understanding the past, remembering the past) Human concern for making sense of time and for developing a rapport with it.