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Using Virtual Reality to promote historical contextualisation in classrooms
Teaching History article
In this article, Mannak, Huijgen and Tuithof share their experience of using Virtual Reality to promote historical contextualisation of the Berlin Blitz with their 13–15 year old students. They outline some strategies for using VR well in the classroom, and ways to avoid potential pitfalls. They then introduce a pedagogical...
Using Virtual Reality to promote historical contextualisation in classrooms
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Stepping into the past: using images to travel through time
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Pupils are eternally curious about their teachers. Do they really have lives outside the classroom? Could Miss Jones have once been a child? Does she have parents and grandparents and a past of her own?...
Stepping into the past: using images to travel through time
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Mudlarking in the Thames: evidence, ecology and enquiry
Teaching History article
Maryam Dorudi arrived at her second PGCE placement school to find many pupils receiving free school meals and speaking English as an additional language. Wanting her students to identify as Londoners and historians, she was drawn into the world of mudlarking and Lara Maiklem. Over the course of eight lessons, she...
Mudlarking in the Thames: evidence, ecology and enquiry
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Move Me On 196: incorporating historical artefacts into worthwhile historical enquiries
Teaching History feature
Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
Move Me On 196: incorporating historical artefacts into worthwhile historical enquiries
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Teaching History 196: Demanding History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
03 Editorial (Read article - open access)
04 HA Secondary News
06 HA Update
08 Mudlarking in the Thames: evidence, ecology and enquiry – Maryam Dorudi (Read article)
19 Britain’s forgotten colony? Why Hong Kong deserves a place in the story of empire – Ollie Barnes (Read article)
32 Triumphs Show: Year 9...
Teaching History 196: Demanding History
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Teaching History 195: Perspectives in Time
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
03 Editorial (Read article)
04 HA Secondary News
06 Disembarking the religious rollercoaster: a new ‘direction’ for studying the consequences of the Reformation – Sarah Jackson-Buckley and Jessie Phillips (Read article)
18 ‘Public guardians, bold yet wary’? How visual evidence reflects change and continuity in attitudes to the police in...
Teaching History 195: Perspectives in Time
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History and the climate crisis
Teaching History article
Kate Hawkey has long been an advocate for teaching about the history of climate change. This article, co-authored with Paula Worth, David Rawlings and Dan Warner-Meanwell, first outlines key arguments from her pioneering book History and the Climate Crisis, before illustrating the range of ways in which a group of...
History and the climate crisis
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Teaching History 194: Climate and Environment
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
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Teaching History 194: Climate and Environment
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Rescuing assessment from ‘knowledge-rich gone wrong’
Teaching History article
Christine Counsell sets out her concerns about the effects on history teaching of recent trends in secondary assessment practice. Situating her analysis within a long-term story of interplay between government policy, classroom practice and school leadership responses to inspection, Counsell sees new distortions emerging in the name of knowledge. She argues...
Rescuing assessment from ‘knowledge-rich gone wrong’
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Teaching History 193: Mediating History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
03 Editorial (read article - open access)
04 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Laughing muppets, lost memories and lethal mutations: rescuing assessment from ‘knowledge-rich gone wrong’ – Christine Counsell (Read article)
26 ‘If we’ve been getting their name wrong, how else have they been misrepresented?’: Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica –...
Teaching History 193: Mediating History
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Redrawing the Renaissance - non verbal assessment in Year 7
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Matt Stanford is not exactly fed up of marking essays, but he could do with a change. His pupils, he realises, could too. History assessments have often been based on words - either the written...
Redrawing the Renaissance - non verbal assessment in Year 7
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Teaching History 192: Breadth
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
03 Editorial (Read article)
04 HA Secondary News
06 1093 and all that: broadening Year 7’s British history horizons with Welsh medieval sources – Holly Hiscox (Read article)
18 Why I teach pupils things I don’t need them to remember forever: the role of takeaways in shaping a history curriculum...
Teaching History 192: Breadth
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Teaching History 190: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 190
As the collection of articles for this issue of Teaching History began to take shape, its title remained rather uncertain. While some of the articles referred explicitly to teaching historical significance, others focused more on teaching students the processes involved in shaping stories about the past....
Teaching History 190: Out now
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Cunning Plan 185… for building difference into GCSE curriculum design
Teaching History feature
Many history teachers have been busy making space in their curriculum plans for different sorts of histories. This process, as Priyamavda Gopal has argued (in response to claims that moves to decolonise the curriculum constitute an attempt to censor history by editing out those bits viewed as ‘stains’ on the nation’s...
Cunning Plan 185… for building difference into GCSE curriculum design
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Practical demonstration: powerful and rigorous history teaching for all
Teaching History article
In this article, Ian Luff returns to the theme of ‘practical demonstration’ which he developed in three articles twenty years ago. Luff restates his original rationale for the enduring power of the approach, advances some new reasons why history teachers should give serious attention to it and shares several practical examples...
Practical demonstration: powerful and rigorous history teaching for all
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What can rituals reveal about power in the medieval world? Teaching Year 7 pupils to apply interdisciplinary approaches
Teaching History article
Much has been written in recent years about how historical scholarship can be used to shape practice in the classroom. As an historian of the medieval period now working as an history teacher, Dhwani Patel offers a fresh perspective on these debates. During her PGCE year, Patel found herself reflecting...
What can rituals reveal about power in the medieval world? Teaching Year 7 pupils to apply interdisciplinary approaches
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Move Me On 186: trainee provides little scope for students to use their knowledge in analysis/argument
Teaching History feature
Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
Move Me On 186: trainee provides little scope for students to use their knowledge in analysis/argument
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Teaching History 190: Ascribing significance
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
03 Editorial (Read article)
04 HA Secondary News
06 HA Update
08 Falling forward: three strategies to support pupils’ study of historical significance – Paula Worth (Read article)
22 Bringing historical method into the classroom: how the spectacle of teachers debating can help A-level students to understand the nature of interpretations –...
Teaching History 190: Ascribing significance
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What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Royal Studies
Teaching History feature
‘Royal Studies’ is much more than the study of kings and queens as individuals. It draws in their families, the institution of monarchy and monarchical government, court studies, relationships with the church, artistic and literary patronage, and more. While history ‘from below’ and studies of non-elite figures have enriched the...
What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Royal Studies
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Move Me On 189: engendering students' curiosity
Teaching History feature
Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
Move Me On 189: engendering students' curiosity
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Teaching History 189: Collaboration
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Adding up marginal gains: using Lesson Study to make microimprovements in teaching Year 8 how to use sources – Tony McConnell, Davinia Daley, Rebecca Levy, Lisa Waddell and Richard Waddington (Read article)
23 Triumphs Show: ‘The Strands of Memory’: how a...
Teaching History 189: Collaboration
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Using Lesson Study to make microimprovements in teaching Year 8 how to use sources
Teaching History article
A highly distinctive and structured approach to teacher development, Lesson Study emerged in Japan but has since been adopted much more widely and now sees growing interest in the UK. Tony McConnell, Davinia Daley, Rebecca Levy, Lisa Waddell and Richard Waddington describe the process by which their school first investigated...
Using Lesson Study to make microimprovements in teaching Year 8 how to use sources
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Building a better past: plans to reform the curriculum
Teaching History article
David Nicholls summarises some of the problems facing history education and offers a commentary on various cases for reform. He argues that we need to look at provision holistically from 5 to 21 and urges collaboration across phases and sectors. By working more closely together, the history community as a...
Building a better past: plans to reform the curriculum
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Navigating the ‘imperial history wars’
Teaching History article
Concerned by the growing tendency of politicians and press to revive the moral balance-sheet approach to British imperial history and by some evidence of its resurgence in schools, Alex Benger set about devising a framework which would keep pupils’ analysis rigorously historical, rather than moral and politicised. In this article,...
Navigating the ‘imperial history wars’
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Move Me On 182: thinks that substantive knowledge is all that matters
Teaching History feature
Lina Power has interpreted an emphasis on knowledge organisers and factual knowledge tests to mean that substantive knowledge is all that matters.
Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical...
Move Me On 182: thinks that substantive knowledge is all that matters
