Diversity in the past
The materials in this section are all focused on the choices that teachers have to make about the substantive content of their curriculum. The diversity that all students encounter within the past – the range of specific individuals and groups of people about whom they learn – and the ways in which different topics are treated within the curriculum are known to impact on the extent to which young people engage with school history and on the connections that they see between past and present. The resources in this section illustrate different ways in which teachers have increased the diversity of their curriculum – paying more attention, for example, to women other than monarchs in the early modern period; examining the work of Black British civil rights campaigners; or questioning the stereotype of the English ‘Tommy’ in examining who fought for Britain on the Western Front. Teachers will need to develop their own subject knowledge if they are to teach more diverse pasts and many of these resources help to provide some of that new knowledge or show where it can be found.
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Cunning Plan 143: enquiries about the British empire
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A comparative revolution?
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Nutshell 135: The challenge of analysing 'difference'
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Teaching History 135: To They or Not To They
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Drilling down: how one history department is working towards progression in pupils' thinking about diversity across Years 7, 8 and 9
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Bringing psychology into history: why do some stories disappear?
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Circle Time in the secondary history classroom
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'How our area used to be back then': An oral history project in an east London school
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Sharing The Past: Northamptonshire's Black History
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Northamptonshire in a Global Context
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Representations of Empire: Learning through Objects
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Seeing a different picture: exploring migration through the lens of history
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Understanding Key Concepts: Diversity
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PowerPoint presentation on developing ways to mainstream Black and Asian British history
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The T.E.A.C.H. Report
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You should be proud about your history. They make you feel ashamed:' Teaching history hurts
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Identity shakers: cultural encounters and the development of pupils' multiple identities
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Teaching controversial issues...where controversial issues really matter
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Music, blood and terror: making emotive and controversial history matter
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Integrating black British history in the National Curriculum
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