Teaching the Maya: why it is important to use new understandings

In this article, Jo identifies a rationale for learning about this civilisation and addresses some of the ways it can be taught, especially with older primary children. It includes a comparative enquiry with Anglo-Saxons. She also highlights how recent research has developed a greater understanding of the Maya and, at the same time, suggests how this can be used to increase pupil awareness of how historians and archaeologists work...