It is a critical exercise and dependent to some degree on sufficient background knowledge. The specific background knowledge required is familiarity with social structures and patterns of historical events, in order that focus can be brought to consideration of detail, and consideration of implications. Students are given a comparative study in the form of web research, to investigate their choice of area of study related to the Middle Ages period. By being given choice of study area, it is envisaged that students would best develop understanding of the area of interest to them. Students will be encouraged to draw approach this exercise in a focused way, by being asked to select their chosen area in, in advance.
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Back To Top 2 Annotation regarding curriculum theory and principles Advocates of situated learning argue that knowledge must be situated in a specific context, relevant to the topic being learnt. This process in theory will then help the learner acquire relevant concepts and in turn these concepts then become knowledge tools. However it does this in a very oblique way. There is some context provided, which hopefully will support students to structure their results and provide them with implicit information about the success of their search methodologies, in the form of a guiding task and question. Compare what you have learned about the Middle Ages to something similar you know about today.