Una mappa in un presunto libro di testo irlandese. Qualcuno lo riconosce? Apparentemente l’Irlanda del Nord è esistita per un breve periodo durante la prima guerra mondiale.
Una mappa in un presunto libro di testo irlandese. Qualcuno lo riconosce? Apparentemente l’Irlanda del Nord è esistita per un breve periodo durante la prima guerra mondiale.
Both maps are really really bad with plenty of outright disinformation across Europe and North Africa, unacceptable for a textbook in any country. But the 1921 border of NI on the 1914 map makes it especially bad for an Irish textbook.
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I was a history teacher for a number of years.
A very long time ago, I came to the conclusion that those who write history textbooks have absolute bone-deep contempt for geography. Some of the worst maps I have ever seen are in history textbooks, and not just in Irish textbooks as I’ve taught abroad too. This is a universal trend, and I just cannot understand it.
Even in this example. I am assuming that map B is meant to be between the two world wars. Poland has been absolutely distorted out of shape compared to what it should look like because Germany has been given its post-1945 borders. I cannot even count the number of errors in this map, let alone deal with the colour scheme of using the same colour on neighbouring countries.
I would have corrected one of my first year students if they drew a map like this, yet somehow it ends up in a textbook and distributed to schools across the country.
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Looks like Artefact from [educate.ie](http://educate.ie)
Some context from the original post:
Both maps are really really bad with plenty of outright disinformation across Europe and North Africa, unacceptable for a textbook in any country. But the 1921 border of NI on the 1914 map makes it especially bad for an Irish textbook.
I was a history teacher for a number of years.
A very long time ago, I came to the conclusion that those who write history textbooks have absolute bone-deep contempt for geography. Some of the worst maps I have ever seen are in history textbooks, and not just in Irish textbooks as I’ve taught abroad too. This is a universal trend, and I just cannot understand it.
Even in this example. I am assuming that map B is meant to be between the two world wars. Poland has been absolutely distorted out of shape compared to what it should look like because Germany has been given its post-1945 borders. I cannot even count the number of errors in this map, let alone deal with the colour scheme of using the same colour on neighbouring countries.
I would have corrected one of my first year students if they drew a map like this, yet somehow it ends up in a textbook and distributed to schools across the country.