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Teaching pupils how history works
Teaching History article
In the last edition of Teaching History Jayne Prior and Peter John presented an approach to extended writing that relied upon pupils’ earlier work.1 Pupil indignation was key. Furious at the blandness of some text presented to them, they used their own knowledge of colour, detail and drama to challenge...
Teaching pupils how history works
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More than just the Henries: Britishness and British history at Key Stage 3
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current national curriculum
With the first teaching of a revised history curriculum due in September 2008 the debate over content and order is well under way. Robert Guyver, involved in the design of the curriculum development experiment that evolved into the 1991 version of...
More than just the Henries: Britishness and British history at Key Stage 3
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Teaching History 65
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Replies to Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley: Always Historicise? - Richard Aldrich
13 Clarity Please! - Gavin Alexander
15 Economic Awareness through History - P. J. Rogers
21 National Curriculum History and Teacher Autonomy: The Major Challenge - Robert Phillips
25 Teaching History: Art American Experience - Sean McGrath
28 Learning about Museum Resources - Sue...
Teaching History 65
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Teaching History 63
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Using Evidence in the GCSE History Classroom - Heather Fry
18 Preparing to Teach about Causation - Ian Davies and Margaret Marshall
23 History Through Drama: A Curriculum Development Project - Graeme Easdown
28 The Appliance of Science: History and the Use of Artefacts in the Primary Curriculum - Peter Vass
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Teaching History 63
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What's happening in History? Trends in GCSE and 'A'-level examinations
Teaching History article
Teaching History frequently celebrates and analyses the practice of those history departments that appear to buck trends. In keeping with the Historical Association’s Campaign for History and its popular ‘Choosing History at 14’ Pack, a number of articles and Triumphs Shows in recent editions of Teaching History have celebrated the...
What's happening in History? Trends in GCSE and 'A'-level examinations
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What is good citizenship education in history classrooms?
Teaching History article
Ian Davies, Geoff Hatch, Gary Martin and Tony Thorpe seek to theorise - and to support teachers in their own theorising - concerning the purpose of citizenship education and criteria for good citizenship education. They aim for a professional precision that will be helpful to teachers, getting us beyond the...
What is good citizenship education in history classrooms?
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Teaching History 56
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 History Across the Primary Secondary Divide - Pat Lackenby and Mel French
14 Evacuation - Fifty Years On - Rob David and the Evacuation Project Team
18 A Fourth Year B.Ed Student asks some questions - Kay Clarke
20 Women's History and Children's perception of gender - Fiona Terry
25 Grasping the...
Teaching History 56
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Teaching History 45
Journal
Editorial 2
Taking advantage of Tollund Man, Rob David 3
Artefacts in the Primary School, John Davies 6
Video and History, Alan Farmer 9
Teaching History in Malawi's Secondary Schools, Sean Morrow 14
A One-year Sixthform Local Studies Course, M.C. Holvoak 20
Report: Women's History Seminar, Sue Millar 22
Letters...
Teaching History 45
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Teaching History 49
Journal
Editorial - Is Neutrality Possible? 2
Letters 3
News 4
Articles:
Childrens' evaluation of evidence on neutral and sensitive topics Roger Austin, Gordon Rae and Keith Hodgkinson 8
Empathy - a case of apathy? - Trevor May and Sean Williams 11
Assessing Drama at GCSE - Graham King, Jennifer Tucker...
Teaching History 49
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'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?
Teaching History article
This was an opportunity all good historians dream about. A large box crammed with artefacts about a soldier who fought in the First World War, just begging to be read, studied, sorted and organised. Being faced with such a wealth of uncatalogued primary evidence could have proved daunting enough without...
'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?
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Teaching History 33
Journal
Editorial, 2
History Teaching and Artificial Intelligence - Richard Ennals, 3
Primary Schools: Humanities and Microelectronics - Ron Jones, 6
Choosing and Using Microcomputers: A Charter of Experience - John Wilkes, 9
Report: History and Computers - Frances Blow, 12
Report: Computer Assisted Learning in History - Derek Turner, 13...
Teaching History 33
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Why essay-writing remains central to learning history at AS level
Teaching History article
Richard Harris challenges those who play down the essay in their teaching of the new AS Level. He argues that essay-writing embodies historical thinking and that it is therefore an essential tool for developing students’ understanding of history as an opinion-forming, judgement making process. Students need to practise developed, evidential...
Why essay-writing remains central to learning history at AS level
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Teaching History 42
Journal
Editorial 2
History: A Most Crucial Element of the Curriculum, Gordon Batho 3
Report: Archives and Education in London 5
Towards a Nationally Agreed Framework I or the Teaching of Primary School History, T.D. Cook 6
Teaching Teachers: A Secondary History PGCE Course, Keith Jenkins 9
Bringing in the Horse,...
Teaching History 42
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How Michael moved us on: transforming Key Stage 3 through peer review
Teaching History article
Thomas Tallis history department have an interesting approach to planning. Whereas, all too often, this most time-consuming and intellectually demanding of teachers’ tasks is rendered invisible, and is supposed to happen by magic in the middle of the night, this department chose to make the planning process genuinely collaborative, pivotal...
How Michael moved us on: transforming Key Stage 3 through peer review
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Teaching History 38
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education - What the History Teacher can Contribute - Ben Kerwood, 3
The Lincolnshire Educational Aids Project - A Successful Launch into Historical Aids - Ray Acton and Tim Hall, 8
The Humanities Teaching and Computing Project-Jon Nichol with Jackie Dean, 12
Report: HMI/National...
Teaching History 38
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Finding voices in the past: exploring identity through the biography of a house
Teaching History article
Heather De Silva, Jenny Smith and Jason Tranter outline a new study unit, planned jointly by their history and geography departments and designed specifically to meet the new requirements for local history required by England’s recently revised National Curriculum for history. They aimed to help pupils to capture a part...
Finding voices in the past: exploring identity through the biography of a house
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Using the Internet to teach about interpretations in Years 9 and 12
Teaching History article
Are you getting fed up of ICT experts and others telling you to watch out for ‘bias’ in websites? Have you sat open-mouthed through a training session or staff meeting where the need to teach pupils to be critical of what they find on the web is sagely discussed, as...
Using the Internet to teach about interpretations in Years 9 and 12
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Teaching History 32
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Role of History in Multi-Cultural Education - David Edgington, 3
The Perception of Indian History Teachers about the Ideal Pupil - Vijay K. Raina, 6
Can History Survive? - Trevor Fisher, 8
Report: Teaching A Level History: A Conference Report - Sandra Armstrong, 10
The History Curriculum...
Teaching History 32
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Teaching History 30
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on Contributors, 3
Down among the Deadmen: Graveyard Surveys for Local Studies - Brian Dix and Richard Smart, 3
Educational Objectives for History - Ten Years On -John Fines, 8
Notes and News, 10
A Primary School's Experiment with a Micro-Computor - James Gent, 11
History Abandoned?...
Teaching History 30
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Teaching History 34
Journal
Teaching History, October 1982 Number 34
In this issue:
Editorial, 2
Museums and the Use of Evidence in History Teaching - Carol Adams and Sue Millar, 3
A Course of Local History for 12-13 year olds and their Reactions to it - John Mathews, 7
Developments in History Teaching in...
Teaching History 34
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Teaching History 21
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 2
Children's Inductive Historical Thought: an Interim Report from a Current Research Project - Martin Booth, 3
Classified Advertisements, 8
An Approach to Learning History in Primary Schools - R. N. Hallam, 9
Young Children and the Past - Joan Blyth, 15
Teaching the Varieties of...
Teaching History 21
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Polychronicon 152: Changing interpretations of the workhouse?
Teaching History feature
The workhouse has long held a negative reputation in the popular imagination as the dreaded destination of the destitute, an institution guaranteed to strike fear into the hearts of the Victorian poor. This is partly owing to its design under the New Poor Law of 1834 as an explicit punishment...
Polychronicon 152: Changing interpretations of the workhouse?
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Teaching History 180: How History Works
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial: How History Works (read article for free)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
10 Curating the imagined past: world building in the history curriculum – Michael Hill (read article)
21 Staying with the shot: shaping the question, lengthening the narrative, broadening the meaning of transatlantic slavery...
Teaching History 180: How History Works
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Cunning Plan 137: making homework more exciting
Teaching History journal feature
Ever since I started teaching, homework has been something of a bugbear. Administration alone is a hassle: not only remembering when to set and collect it in, but keeping track of the various students who fail to deliver anything on time (except highly creative excuses) and of the follow-up action...
Cunning Plan 137: making homework more exciting
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Pedagogical framework for stimulating historical contextualisation
Teaching History article
'Why am I accused of being a heretic?' A pedagogical framework for stimulating historical contextualisation
One of the challenges facing students who want to make sense of a source or an interpretation of the past is the need to place it in its context. Various research studies have shown that students...
Pedagogical framework for stimulating historical contextualisation
