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Using fictional characters to explore the relationship between historical interpretation and contemporary attitude
Teaching History article
Helping students to understand how and why people in the present interpret the past differently is a challenge. It is also vital if we are to develop an understanding of why the meanings we ascribe to the past are not fixed, but rather are subject to our own prejudices or...
Using fictional characters to explore the relationship between historical interpretation and contemporary attitude
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Teaching History 153: The Holocaust & Other Genocides
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Tamsin Leyman and Richard Harris - Connecting the dots: helping Year 9 to debate the purposes of Holocaust and genocide education (Read article)
11 Darius Jackson - ‘But I still don't get why the Jews': using cause and change to answer pupils' demand for an...
Teaching History 153: The Holocaust & Other Genocides
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Teaching History 93: History and ICT
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Why Gerry likes history now: the power of the word processor - Ben Walsh (Read article)
History using information technology: past, present and future - Alaric Dickinson (Read article)
The Hopi is different from the Pawnee: using a datafile to explore pattern and diversity - Dave Martin (Read article)
Maps,...
Teaching History 93: History and ICT
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Teaching History 44
Journal
Editorial
Grade Criteria: opportunity or impending disaster? - R. Ben Jones
Domesday Book - past and present, John Fines and Jon Nichol
An Appreciation of Joe Hunt
Childwrite, Teresa Clark
Computer Update
The Teaching of Irish History in the Secondary School, Roger Swift
The Contributors
Town and Country in the...
Teaching History 44
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Teaching History 127: Sense and Sensitivity
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
04 Music, blood and terror: making emotive and controversial history matter – Andrew Wrenn and Tim Lomas (Read article)
11 Nutshell
13 Teaching controversial issues… where controversial issues really matter – Keith Barton and Alan McCully (Read article)
20 Polychronicon: the Crusades (Read article)
22 Identity-shakers: cultural encounters and the...
Teaching History 127: Sense and Sensitivity
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An introduction to Teaching History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Teaching History – the HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Teaching History is the UK’s leading professional journal for history teachers at secondary level. Published quarterly with a distribution of over 3,000, Teaching History also boasts a growing international readership. These include teachers, heads of department, trainees, and libraries.
Teaching History is free...
An introduction to Teaching History
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Teaching History 124: Teaching the most able
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 Expertise in its development phase: planning for the needs of gifted adolescent historians – Deborah Eyre (Read article)
09 Duffy’s devices: teaching Year 13 to read and write – Rachel Ward (Read article)
17 Mussolini’s missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE – Arthur Chapman and James Woodcock (Read article)...
Teaching History 124: Teaching the most able
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Teaching History 117: Dealing with distance
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with how to help pupils to notice in themselves those assumptions that are based on their own familiar world and which actually get in the way of making sense of past actions and belief. How one period visualises another, Ideas for developing chronological understanding, Modern day parallels...
Teaching History 117: Dealing with distance
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Journal
Editorial 2
`On Monday I Took Back the Armour and the Video's, Ross Lee and Richard Davis 3
Committed Historiography and History Teaching in Nigerian Secondary Schools, Noel A. Ihebuzor 8
Report: Historical Consciousness and Identity, Charles Hannam 11
The European Dimension and German History, T.C. Lewis 12
Outstanding History...
Teachng History 40
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Teaching History 114: Making history personal
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with helping pupils to relate to, and empathise with, history. The Great War, Using fictional characters to explore the relationship between historical interpretation and contemporary attitudes, Josephine Butler and significance, The teaching and learning of history for 15-16yr olds: have the Japanese anything to learn from the...
Teaching History 114: Making history personal
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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)
20...
Teaching History 111: Reading History
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'I just wish we could go back in the past and find out what really happened': progression in understanding about historical accounts
Teaching History article
This is the second in a series of articles for Teaching History in which Peter Lee and Denis Shemilt share the findings of Project Chata (Concepts of History and Teaching Approaches). In their first article (see Edition 113), they questioned the wisdom of using the National Curriculum attainment target as...
'I just wish we could go back in the past and find out what really happened': progression in understanding about historical accounts
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Teaching History 100: Thinking and Feeling
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Exploring Values Through History, Rethinking roleplay, Gladstone spritual of Gladstone material? A rationale for using documents at AS and A2, Telling and suggesting in the Conwy Valley, NQT's, Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing and much more...
‘I’ve been in the Reichstag’: rethinking roleplay - Ian Luff...
Teaching History 100: Thinking and Feeling
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Teaching History 133: Simulating History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Stories and their sources: the need for historical thinking in an information age – Ben Walsh (Read article)
10 How to make historical simulations adaptable, engaging and manageable – Dan Moorhouse (Read article)
17 Nutshell
18 ‘If everyone’s got to vote then, obviously…...
Teaching History 133: Simulating History
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Let's see what's under the blue square...': getting pupils to track their own thinking
Teaching History article
Trainee teachers Suzie Bunyan and Anna Marshall explain why they decided to devise an activity in which they made a big fuss of a just one visual source. As beginning teachers they were also focusing on aspects of their own professional learning. They had decided to extend their skills in...
Let's see what's under the blue square...': getting pupils to track their own thinking
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Teaching History 37
Journal
In this issue:
Editorial, 2
School History Visits and Piagetian Theory - Mike Pound, 3
Film and the Study of History - The Imperial War Museum as a Practical Example - Paul Sargent, 7
Teaching History in the Soviet Secondary General Education School - A.G. Koloskov, 12
How to be...
Teaching History 37
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Teaching History 98: Defining Progression
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This issue deals with defining and examining the question of what constitutes progress in history. Using audience centred writing to improve progression from Key Stage 2 to 3, Steering your Ofsted inspector into the long-term reasons for classroom success, Using Key Stage 3 to improve performances at GCSE, Learning to...
Teaching History 98: Defining Progression
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Teaching History 18
Journal
Editorial, 2
The contributors, 2
Geffrye Museum: People's Museum, 3
Report: Staffordshire Courses, July 1976, 5A Renaissance in history 'A' level, 6
Exploring a Community's Past, 11
Comment, 14
Making the best use of textbooks, 16
Detective exercises are not quite enough, 22
Review article - imagination and the historian,...
Teaching History 18
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From horror to history: teaching pupils to reflect on significance
Teaching History article
In this detailed account of the first stages of a lesson sequence for Year 9 (13-14 year-olds), Kate Hammond sets out the tensions that must be examined and resolved when planning and teaching this most demanding of topics. How can young teenagers be helped to develop a mature response to...
From horror to history: teaching pupils to reflect on significance
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Teaching History 17
Journal
About the journal, 2
The Editors, 2
Islam in history, 3
Resources - Islam in history, 5
African history in the classroom, 7
History in Central Africa, 10
Review article - recently published books on African history, 13
The historian's method - a course for the 'A' level student, 15...
Teaching History 17
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Teaching History 28
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on Contributors, 3
The Teaching History Imaginative Writing Competition 1980, 3
Why History - the Teachers - Peter Carpenter, 6
History 16-19, 8
Profile: Peggy Bryant - Martin Booth, 9
How I taught history - Sinclair Atkins, 11
Practical Points on Teaching History to less-able secondary pupils,...
Teaching History 28
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Teaching History 27
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on contributors, 2
Oral History and the Raj - Andrew Reekes, 4
Programmed Learning and Guided Learning in History - Brian Garvey, 7
From a Victorian Scrapheap - David Jeremy, 10
Simulations and Computers - Richard Ennals, 13
Mr Polly's History, 16
Mission to England - Barbara...
Teaching History 27
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Teaching History 116: Place
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with how the purpose of history relates to the purpose of geography or how geography's shaping concepts fit into those of history. How do the two subjects strengthen each other?
06 Sense, Relationship, and Power: Uncommon Views of Place - Liz Taylor (Read article)
14 Cunning Plan: Geography...
Teaching History 116: Place
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Teaching History 109: Examining History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition asks the question: how do we create worthwhile examination courses that stimulate all pupils and strengthens the gold standard of rigour at the same time? Why we must change history at GCSE, Getting Year 10 to understand the value of precise factual knowledge, Ensuring progression continues into GCSE,...
Teaching History 109: Examining History
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Journal
Editorial, 2
Imaginative Writing Competition 1980, 2
The Teaching History Imaginative Writing Competition 1979, 3
The Contributors, 3
Patrick Richardson (1927-1979), 5
CEE History - One approach - Ian Dawson, 6
The Teaching of History, 11-18, A Consistent Approach - Jon Nichol, 9
Contradictory Ideas - Hugh Nicklin, 15
The...
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