The Education Landscape: Balancing History, Technology, and Teaching Challenges with Barbara Mojica

Unity in Identity · Mar 5, 2026 · 1h 16m

The educator Barbara discuss what makes a healthy society—people who listen, communicate, share views without imposing them—and why history is essential to understanding how the past shaped the present and to planning a better future. Barbara, a historian who spent 40 years in general and special education, explains how schools have de-emphasized history, civics, primary-source research, and critical thinking in favor of teaching to tests, while social media and internet “instant answers” fuel snap judgments and division. She describes creating a children’s history book series to make history…