Friday, October 17, 2008

History for... UPSR....??

Guong

Yes, you read right, History is going to be taught in primary school and will be made as one of the subject in UPSR. Well, it's still being studied but judging from our Deputy Education Ministry Datuk Razali Ismail response, it seems this proposal will be implemented.

Its deputy minister Datuk Razali Ismail said the matter was being studied in the "Transformation of the Curriculum for Primary Schools" that was slated for implementation two years from now. Yahoo news
But, something just doesn't seems right. It's seems like political motive is involved in this matter.

Why?

Well. first of all, it was propose by our Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. It was very obvious that this proposal was base on recent issues such as Social Contract, Religion, Special Rights and racial sentiment. Then these questions comes to mind. What will be the contents of this primary History subject? Will it be free of bias towards certain 'race'? Are these primary students mature enough to understand history? If they are not mature enough, doesn't it looks like 'brainwashing' them.

Why do I use the term 'brainwashing'? Read this.

KOTA KINABALU 16 Okt. – Menteri Pengajian Tinggi, Datuk Khaled Nordin berkata, rakyat Malaysia perlu berusaha untuk memperkasakan semangat patriotisme di dalam diri masing- masing dengan mendalami sejarah negara.

Beliau berkata, saranan itu disifatkan tepat pada masanya agar kepentingan subjek sejarah dalam sistem pendidikan negara dapat dinilai semula.

Menurutnya, mata pelajaran sejarah perlu diberi keutamaan bukan sahaja di peringkat universiti, malahan ia perlu dimulakan dan dipupuk pada peringkat rendah lagi.

‘‘Soal kefahaman sejarah negara, kontrak sosial dan isu perpaduan kaum perlu diterap pada peringkat awal untuk menjayakan matlamat jangka panjang keharmonian negara. Utusan

Read the bold sentence. What kind of history lesson will it be when these aspects are to be highlight? We all know that these aspects are clearly biased towards a certain race. How can it promote racial harmony when these aspects were to be 'put' in each kids conscience according to 'their' ideology? Isn't this somehow a way of making the next generation to be 'obedient' to 'them'.

I'm not against this proposal, but the syllabus for this would be primary History subject just a bit shady for me.

Or maybe this is just Pak Lah attempt to leave some 'legacy' before he step down as PM..

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