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Home / Primary / CPD / Free for members / What sort of history should school history be? Debate Podcast / What is the purpose of school history?

What is the purpose of school history?

 

1.1 Barbara Sands - Primary.

 

 

1.2 Simon Harrison - Teaching a skill set.

 

 

1.3 Alison Stephen - Skill sets and narratives.

 

 

1.4 Claire Buxton

 

 

1.5 Ben Walsh

 

 

1.6 Audience response - Using the history lesson to correct popular falsehoods and misconceptions. Religious and cultural misconceptions.

 

 

1.7 Michael Riley - History's capacity to humanise. History and identity formation.

 

 

1.8 Wikepedia and history on the web.


Attached files:

  • 1.1 What the purpose of school history - Barbara Sands
    3.12 MB MP3 file
  • 1.2 Simon Harrison
    1.95 MB MP3 file
  • 1.3 Alison Stephen
    1.8 MB MP3 file
  • 1.4 Claire Buxton
    782 KB MP3 file

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