Philosophy Marginalization and detachment
A group of writers has launched the manifesto
Writers with History
, which denounces the change in method and objectives of the teaching of History in
Baccalaureate and ESO
as a pedagogical error and political manipulation.
"It supposes to send the History to the guillotine", they sentence.
"The decision to erase the chronology [as a thread of History] is
an aberration that prevents knowledge and replaces it with a kind of amalgamation of data, of zapping
", explains the novelist Antonio Pérez Henares, one of the promoters of the manifesto.
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His theory is that this methodological decision hides a specific political agenda: "Both revisionist criteria - that of ESO and Baccalaureate - are not designed to facilitate learning for students, they are not the mere product of an innocent but foolish plasticine pedagogy", it reads in the manifest.
"They respond to an ideological approach that turns History into a magma, into a series of frames disconnected from each other where historical time makes no sense and, therefore, the facts are not integrated into a specific time, but are taught out of context.
This formula makes students fall into presentism and judge the past with criteria of the present
, which means fertilizing the ground for 'the culture of cancellation': the challenge of any historical fact, cultural work or character considered contrary to certain current identity values".
The anger at the redesign of History overlaps with that of Philosophy teachers for their marginalization in the study plans.
"Everything is part of the same thought that wants to impose on us a doctrine of political correctness above knowledge.
It is intended to erase the thought and History of the West
, erase all thought that is not theirs and create people who have no roots, critical thinking or analysis," explains Pérez Henares.
The manifesto also points to what they say is a conscious decision to eliminate references to "the
common project
" of Spain.
Pérez Henares maintains that this bias is "a concession to separatism," in addition to a "sectarian and falsely progressive reading that dismembers reality."
Among the signatories of the manifesto are the writers
Juan Eslava Galán, Carmen Posadas, Eva Díaz Pérez
, Gonzalo Giner, José Ángel Mañas, Almudena de Arteaga, Manuel Pimentel and José Calvo Poyato, among others.
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