{"id":4396,"date":"2019-02-28T23:17:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2019-02-17T23:17:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T20:17:33","slug":"classroom-debate-and-consolidation-how-successful-was-mao-as-ruler-of-china-1949-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/classroom-debate-and-consolidation-how-successful-was-mao-as-ruler-of-china-1949-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Classroom debate and consolidation: How successful was Mao as ruler of China, 1949-76?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Classroom debate and consolidation: How successful was Mao as ruler of China, 1949-76?<\/h3>\n<p>Members of the class will be presented with this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/ib\/mao\/5_Debate\/1_Mao_Chronological_Analysis_Debate.docx\">debate framework and detailed timeline<\/a>. They use this to frame &#8220;prosecution&#8221; questions on particular policies (summarised as the headings in six key columns in a table provided). These questions should take the format &#8220;<em>Is it not true that&#8230;which is demonstrated by the following evidence&#8230;which is reliable because&#8230;<\/em>&#8220;.<br \/>\nEach member of the class will then share their question an allocated opponent, who will then be given time to frame a response to it, ideally using fresh evidence from research if appropriate.<br \/>\nThe debate between the first pair of students will then take place and all students should take notes before the audience then attempts to reach a concluding synthesis which both sides are happy to accept. Repeat for the other questions to obtain a thorough analysis of the topic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classroom debate and consolidation: How successful was Mao as ruler of China, 1949-76? Members of the class will be presented with this debate framework and detailed timeline. They use this to frame &#8220;prosecution&#8221; questions on particular policies (summarised as the headings in six key columns in a table provided). These questions should take the format&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/classroom-debate-and-consolidation-how-successful-was-mao-as-ruler-of-china-1949-76\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-18U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4397,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions\/4397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}