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Teaching History 36
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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...
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Illuminating the shadow: making progress happen in casual thinking through speaking and listening
Teaching History article
Here is another breath of fresh air from the Thomas Tallis history department. In TH 103, Head of Department Tony Hier showed how he developed a rigorous framework for implementing government initiatives and improving departmental professional discourse at the same time. This time, from history teacher Vaughan Clark, we get...
Illuminating the shadow: making progress happen in casual thinking through speaking and listening
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Teaching History 33
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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...
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Teaching History 30
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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?...
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Teaching History 29
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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,...
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Teaching History 28
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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,...
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Cunning Plan 101: how emailing enhanced students' debating skills
Teaching History feature
Richard Harris and Diana Laffin describe how e-mailing enhanced their students' debating skills.
Cunning Plan 101: how emailing enhanced students' debating skills
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Teaching History 26
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Editorial, 2
Contributors, 3
Trainee Teachers of History and Infants as Learners - John Fines, 3
Howler of the Year Competition, 5
A Castle in a Classroom - Carole Taylor and Joan Allmark, 6
Indian Village: a Simulation Exercise - Thomas F. Willer and Bruce M. Haight, 9
Bias in...
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Reflecting on rights: teaching pupils about pre-1832 British politics using a realistic role-play
Teaching History article
Ian Luff’s discussion of role-play and his many practical examples (Ian Luff (2000) in Issue 100) drew a huge and positive response from readers. Luff emphasised the simple and the realistic, and, at the same time, showed how to get maximum value from these winning activities through a tight learning...
Reflecting on rights: teaching pupils about pre-1832 British politics using a realistic role-play
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A poodle with bite: Using ICT to make AS level more rigorous
Teaching History article
Diana Laffin describes two substantial ICT activities designed to strengthen both motivation and rigour in Year 12. In her first activity, she uses the power of ICT to develop a critical sense of audience. She shows how this can have a direct impact on improving performance in relation to examination...
A poodle with bite: Using ICT to make AS level more rigorous
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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 21
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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...
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Teaching History 20
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Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 2
Residential Courses for Sixth Formers - Tony Taylor, 3
What is History? Two Conferences - Brian Scott, 5
Structured Sixth Form Study - David Killingray, 8
16+ Feasibility Study and Oral Assessment - John Hamer, 10
Comment, 13
Reports:
Language and History Teaching, 15
History...
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Teaching History 19
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Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 2
The Genesis of the History Teaching Film - B. J. Elliott, 3
Film and the History Teacher - J. Duckworth, 8
A Select List of Feature Films of use in the Teaching of History - T. Gwynn, 11
New Approaches to the Study and Teaching...
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Teaching History 18
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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,...
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Why Gerry now likes evidential work
Teaching History article
Phil Smith resurrects the lovable Gerry who was first introduced to Teaching History readers by Ben Walsh. Gerry now pops up in another history classroom, and, sadly, has had a few terrible teachers since Ben was looking after him. Phil brings Gerry back to the path of righteousness. Through an...
Why Gerry now likes evidential work
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Databases, spreadsheets, and historical enquiry at Key Stage 3
Teaching History article
Databases and spreadsheets used to terrify many history teachers and even where some skill was gained, these tools were approached in a spirit of professional worthiness rather than of intellectual excitement. Rob Alfano oozes intellectual excitement and it is pretty obvious that he communicates this to his pupils. His approaches...
Databases, spreadsheets, and historical enquiry at Key Stage 3
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Computers don't bite! Your first tentative steps in using ICT in the classroom.
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This article is for beginners. It will also provide perspectives and ideas for those training history teachers in the use of ICT for improving pupils’ learning. Drawing upon his experience in managing the HA’s NOF training programme, Alf Wilkinson outlines some practical activities that are ideal for getting the novice...
Computers don't bite! Your first tentative steps in using ICT in the classroom.
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Myths and Monty Python: using the witch-hunts to introduce students to significance
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In this article Kerry Apps introduces students to the significance of the witch-hunts in the modern era, at the time when they occurred, and in the middle of the eighteenth century. She presents her rationale for choosing the witch-hunts as a focus for the study of significance, and shows how her thinking about her teaching has evolved through her evaluation of her students’...
Myths and Monty Python: using the witch-hunts to introduce students to significance
