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CatholicMommy
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Posted: Oct 23 2010 at 11:42am \| IP Logged

Has anyone set out to specifically do history in backwards order?

ie starting with the own child in the preschool years; expanding out to family and local recent history; then to extended family, grandparents, and more general local history; then to country history and (if known) further lineage); etc?

It's just a thought I had today - provide the overview of history, then start with what is totally familiar, and work backwards connecting the pieces (so how did we end up in this city/state/country? etc).

Thoughts?

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Posted: Oct 23 2010 at 11:50am \| IP Logged

It can be done.. I had a history teacher in high school do this.. but it does make for difficulties in cause and effect because you're always looking at what happened and then backing up to the why.

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Posted: Oct 23 2010 at 4:03pm \| IP Logged

We don't formally study history in this manner but informally we've discussed a fair amount of modern history with a extended family context.

It's a useful hook for modern history as we have family who immigrated from Holland and England after the Second World War as well as other extended family with generations deep roots in Canada.

If I was to approach formal study from this angle, I'd be inclined to start by filling in the family tree as far back as we could and then start filling in the historical background as we moved forward again so that the historical narrative would be flowing forwards in expected fashion. Trying to interweave the various family threads would be hard enough without doing so backwards.

It does lead to interesting discoveries though, recently my daughter learned that my maternal grandmother and my husband's father were born in the same year and that her oldest uncle on her dad's side was a mere five years younger then my mom!
[We had been discussing the effect of World War II from a family prospective ]

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Posted: Oct 23 2010 at 4:31pm \| IP Logged

Mother of Divine Grace uses this approach.

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