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Teaching History 105: Talking History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition explores the diversity of attitudes and experiences through speaking and listening. Using initial Stimulus Mateial (ISM) to promote enquiry, thinking and literacy, Speaking and listening in Year 7 history, Developing student teachers' work with museums and historic sites and much more...
Beyond ‘I speak, you listen, boy!’ Exploring...
Teaching History 105: Talking History
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Teaching History 108: Performing History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Special 64 page themed edition of Teaching History: Thinking from the inside: je suis le roi, International relations at GCSE, Using historical fiction in the history classroom, How useful is the music of African-Americans to historians, Using film at AS/A2 Level, Music and history, The unique contribution of theatre to...
Teaching History 108: Performing History
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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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Teaching History 174: Structure
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary news
04 HA update
08 Austin’s narrative: an exploratory case study, with Year 8, into what kinds of feedback help students produce better historical narratives of the interwar years – Alex Rodker (Read article)
16 Cunning Plan: Teaching Year 8 to create and...
Teaching History 174: Structure
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Teaching History 111: Reading History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 ‘Really weird and freaky’: using a Thomas Hardy short story as a source of evidence in the Year 8 classroom - Mary Woolley (Read article)
13 Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13: a case study on women in the Third Reich - Alison Kitson (Read article)
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Teaching History 111: Reading History
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Teaching History 197: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 197: Public History
Public history is history facing outwards: engaging with the public sphere beyond the ivory tower of research and scholarship in universities. In a recent essay entitled ‘Glorious memory’, Hicks writes of ‘an explosion of new public histories’ in recent decades, ‘led by communities from...
Teaching History 197: Out now
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'Doing justice to history': the learning of African history in a North London secondary school
Teaching History article
‘Doing justice to history': the learning of African history in a North London secondary school and teacher development in the spirit of ubuntu
The medium is the message, Marshall McLuhan observed many years ago and the ‘form' of what we do carries ‘content' as Hayden White has argued. This article...
'Doing justice to history': the learning of African history in a North London secondary school
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Teaching History 145: Narrative
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Lynda Abbott and Richard S Grayson - Community engagement in local history: a report on the Hemel at War project (Read article)
14 Paul Barrett - ‘My grandfather slammed the door in Winston Churchill's face!' using family history to provoke rigorous enquiry (Read...
Teaching History 145: Narrative
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Teaching History 29
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on Contributors, 3
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy - Keith Hodgkinson and Michael Long, 3
Notes and news, 7
Primary School Children's Preception of Authenticity and Time in Historical Narrative Pictures - John West, 8
A Course in Local History Tonbridge and Kent - Andrew Reekes,...
Teaching History 29
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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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Teaching History 36
Journal
Teaching History, June 1983 Number 36
In this issue:
Editorial, 2
Off the Record: the Ommission of Women from Classroom Historical Evidence - Carol Adams, 3
Sex Differences and Historical Understanding - Martin Booth, 7
Sexist Microcosm - R.J. Bradbury and C.A. Newbould, 9
A Feast or Famine? History for...
Teaching History 36
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Teaching History 177: Building Knowledge
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article for free)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Modelling the discipline: how can Yasmin Khan’s use of evidence enable us to teach a more global World War II? – David Hibbert and Zaiba Patel (Read article)
16 Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’...
Teaching History 177: Building Knowledge
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Interdisciplinary forays within the history classroom
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
How might history and art mutually enrich each other and enhance pupil experience? The short answer, and there is much more to be said as Liz Dawes Duraisingh and Veronica Boix Mansilla show, is by...
Interdisciplinary forays within the history classroom
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Teaching History 143: Constructing Claims
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Gary Howells - Why was Pitt not a mince pie? Enjoying argument without end: creating confident historical readers at A Level (Read article)
15 Jane Card - Seeing the point: using visual sources to understand the arguments for women's suffrage (Read article)
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Teaching History 143: Constructing Claims
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Teaching History 67
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 History for Ordinary Children - Terry Haydn
11 'Real Books' and Interpretations of History' in the National Curriculum - Hugh D. J. Nicklin
17 'Just for Laughs?' The History Day as an Experiment in Cross-phase Learning - Derek Peaple
22 The Valence House Project - John Ubsdell and Gillian Gillespie
24 Instuctional...
Teaching History 67
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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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History, citizenship and Oliver Stone
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
When is a work of art a work of history? How can we get our students to appreciate the difference without ignoring the overlap? How should we ask our students to approach the historical film...
History, citizenship and Oliver Stone
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Teaching History 52
Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
Controversial Women - Hilary Bourdillas and Paula Bartley 10
Sources for Course - Malcolm Pearce 15
A Level History: On Historical Facts, and Other Problems - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley 19
The End of British History - Stephen Howarth 25
Renewed School History: An...
Teaching History 52
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Teaching History 55
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
Empathy and History - Ann Low-Beer
Some Reflections on Empathy in History - John Cairns
Reflections on the Empathy Debate - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley
Pupils and the Professional Historian - Neil De Marco
Some Comments on the Future of Integrated or Modular Humanities Courses in Schools -...
Teaching History 55
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Teaching History 69
Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
Young Children's Thinking in History Hilary Cooper 8
The Magnificent Seven: Reasons for Teaching about Prehistory Peter Stone 13
National Curriculum History, Schemes of Work and the Primary School Child Brian Scott 19
Delivering the Primary History Curriculum Keith Crawford and Graham Rogers 22
The...
Teaching History 69
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Teaching History 70
The HA's journal for history teachers
9 Change and Continuity: Some Reflections on the First Year's Implementation of Key Stage 3 History in the National Curriculum - Robert Phillips
13 Implementing the National Curriculum, Term 1 - Ruth Watts
17 History Tasks at Key Stage 3: A Survey from Five Schools - Peter D. John
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Teaching History 70
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Historical reasoning in the classroom
Teaching History article
Historical reasoning in the classroom: What does it look like and how can we enhance it?
The history education community has long recognised that historical thinking depends on the interplay between substantive knowledge about the past and the procedural, or second-order, concepts that historians use to construct, shape and give...
Historical reasoning in the classroom
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Teaching History 188: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 188: Representing History
History teachers are familiar with the challenges that arise as we try to help our students make historical sense of past worlds. Building historical representations of the past is imaginatively demanding – it requires ‘world-making’ and narrative expertise. The challenges are probative, not merely...
Teaching History 188: Out now
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Teaching History 125: Significance
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 ‘Maybe they haven’t decided yet what is right:’ English and Spanish perspectives on teaching historical significance – Lis Cercadillo (Read article)
10 What they think they know: the impact of pupils’ preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance – Robin Conway (Read article)
16 Polychronicon: The Norman Conquest - Tony McConnell
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Teaching History 125: Significance
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Curating the imagined past: world building in the history curriculum
Teaching History article
Mike Hill was concerned that his students were unable to genuinely inhabit the historical places they encountered in his lessons. Drawing on fields as varied as history-teacher research, philosophy, and literary and media theory, Hill identified ways to curate his students’ constructions of ‘secondary worlds’ in the historical past, including...
Curating the imagined past: world building in the history curriculum
