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Teaching History 51
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Editorial - Continuity, Coherence and Consistency 2
News 3
Articles:
Celebrating the Solstice: A 'History through Drama' Teaching Project on the Iron Age - Jayne Woodhouse and Viv Wilson 10
The Big Push: Active Learning in the Humanities - Jason King, John Cox and Sue Dymoke 15
Problem Solving in...
Teaching History 51
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Teaching History 54
Journal
Editorial 2
Historical Association News 3
Articles:
Computers in Secondary School History Teaching: an HMI view - Carole Baker and lain Paterson 7
Supporting the Future - MESU and the History Teacher - Sue Bennett 10
An Introduction to Computers in the History Classroom - John Simkin 12
GCSE Course...
Teaching History 54
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Teaching History 129: Disciplined Minds
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
04 HA Secondary News
06 Unnatural and essential: the nature of historical thinking – Sam Wineburg (Read article)
13 Nutshell
14 New alchemy or fatal attraction? History and citizenship – Peter Lee and Denis Shemilt (Read article)
20 Polychronicon: Peterloo – Robert Poole (Read article)
22 Interdisciplinary forays...
Teaching History 129: Disciplined Minds
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Teaching History 79
The HA's journal for history teachers
5 The Revised History Order - Sue Bennett and Ian Steele
9 From Plowden to Dearing - Patrick Wood
11 Developing an Understanding of Time - Sydney Wood
15 The Development Of Temporal Concepts in Children and its Significance for History Teaching in the Senior Primary School - Cheryl-Ann Simchowitz...
Teaching History 79
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Teaching, learning and sharing medieval history for all
Teaching History article
Medieval history is on the rise. Among the many recent reforms in the history curriculum is a requirement for medieval themes at GCSE and across the country the new linear A-level offers fresh opportunities for teachers to look beyond the traditional diet of Tudors and modern history. The huge divide...
Teaching, learning and sharing medieval history for all
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Teaching History 102: Inspiration and Motivation
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Learning to love history: preparation of non-specialist primary school teachers to teach history, Finding voices in the past: exploring identity through the biography of a house, Getting pupils to track their own thinking and much more...
Why Gerry now likes evidential work - Phil Smith (Read article)
Teaching pupils how...
Teaching History 102: Inspiration and Motivation
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Teaching History 137: Marking Time
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Jerome Freeman and Joanne Philpott - ‘Assessing Pupil Progress': transforming teacher assessment in Key Stage 3 history (Read article)
14 Jannet van Drie, Albert Logtenberg, Bas van der Meijden and Marcel van Riessen - "When was that date?" Building and assessing a frame of reference...
Teaching History 137: Marking Time
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Teaching History 200: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 200: Telling Histories
In his recent book on the experiences of Parisians in the years leading up to the French Revolution, Robert Darnton describes the Tree of Cracow, a large chestnut tree in the garden of the Palais-Royal in central Paris.1 ‘Nouvellistes de bouche’ (oral newsmongers) gathered...
Teaching History 200: Out now
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Giving students proper recognition for historical oracy
Teaching History article
It was concern about Year 13 students’ reluctance to articulate their thinking that prompted Toby Dove to review his approach to the promotion of oracy within history. Having recognised the importance of young people being able to express and defend their claims in valid ways, as well as the ways...
Giving students proper recognition for historical oracy
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Harnessing the power of community to expand students’ historical horizons
Teaching History article
Many history teachers will already be familiar with ‘meanwhile, elsewhere...’, a website offering freely downloadable homework resources on individuals, events and developments in world history. In this article the website’s creators, Richard Kennett and Will Bailey-Watson, set out a curricular rationale for the project. They argue that using homework tasks...
Harnessing the power of community to expand students’ historical horizons
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Teaching History 152: Pulling it all together
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Catherine McCrory - How many people does it take to make an Essex man? Year 9 face up to historical difference (Read article)
20 Cunning Plan: placing visual sources at the heart of historical learning - Shaun Collins (Read article)...
Teaching History 152: Pulling it all together
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Exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative
Teaching History article
‘English king Frederick I won at Arsuf, then took Acre, then they all went home': exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative
Paula Worth draws on three professional traditions in history education in order to build a lesson sequence on the Crusades for her Year 7s. First,...
Exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative
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Historical significance - the forgotten 'Key Element'?
Teaching History article
How many history departments regularly discuss the quality of their enquiries and teaching processes that relate to historical significance? It would not be unusual, in 2002, for a history department to spend time in a department meeting reflecting upon pupils’ learning about causation or to explore the connection between pupils’...
Historical significance - the forgotten 'Key Element'?
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Teaching History 187: Out now
Article
Read Teaching History 187: Widening the World lens
Those who don’t teach history sometimes ask why it is that the work of history curriculum development is never finished. Why is it that just when a scheme of work seems to be working well, the history teacher starts to question it,...
Teaching History 187: Out now
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Teaching History 183: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 183: Race
Collectively, the articles in this edition say something profound about the joy and privilege of being a history teacher. In our intellectual journeying, none of us can ever stand still. Conversations within and across societies and cultures never stop. Such conversations interact with the work...
Teaching History 183: Out now
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Teaching History 119: Language
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05 Does the linguistic release the conceptual? Helping Year 10 to improve their causal reasoning – James Woodcock (Read article)
24 Are you ready for your close-up? – Heather Scott with Judith Kidd (Read article)
15 The Tudor monarchy in crisis: using a historian’s account to stretch the most able...
Teaching History 119: Language
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Britain’s forgotten colony? Why Hong Kong deserves a place in the story of empire
Teaching History article
Ollie Barnes encountered Hong Kong history on honeymoon and, powerfully, in the classroom in Nottinghamshire. Historical changes in the former colony’s present had resulted in increasing numbers of Hong Kongers arriving in school. This history demanded attention – important historical changes were in process and pupils needed to understand them....
Britain’s forgotten colony? Why Hong Kong deserves a place in the story of empire
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'Now listen to Source A' : Music and History
Teaching History article
In Steve Mastin’s classroom, pupils do not just read, look at and observe their historical sources. They listen to them. Steve’s classroom is already full of music. He uses it variously - to focus, settle or simply to expand the cultural curiosity of his pupils. Pupils expect to walk in...
'Now listen to Source A' : Music and History
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Firing enthusiasm for history through international conversation
Teaching History article
Richard Kerridge and Sacha Cinnamond explain how their history department built a culture of international dialogue and collaboration that enriches their students' historical learning. Videoconferencing is at the centre of these activities. Their story begins with an initial, moving encounter with the First World War battlefields that soon turned into...
Firing enthusiasm for history through international conversation
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Teaching History 176: Widening Vistas
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update: thinking beyond boundaries – Jason Todd (Read article for free)
10 Visions of America: using historical discourse to find narrative coherence in the GCSE period study – Alex Ford (Read article)
22 What’s The Wisdom On... evidence and sources (Read article)...
Teaching History 176: Widening Vistas
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Polychronicon 156: The transnational history of the First World War
Teaching History feature
With the publication in 2014 of the Cambridge History of the First World War, we enter a new transnational phase in the historical understanding of the conflict. The reasons why this change has come about are evident.
The first is that there are more transnational historians writing the history of...
Polychronicon 156: The transnational history of the First World War
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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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Bringing historical method into the classroom
Teaching History article
Shortly before their final A-level examination, Peter Turner was alarmed to discover some fundamental weaknesses in his Year 13 students’ understanding of the nature of historical interpretations. Determined to address this concern at a much earlier point with his next cohort of students he developed a new six-lesson enquiry. His...
Bringing historical method into the classroom
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Teaching History 157: Assessment
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
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Teaching History 157: Assessment
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Teaching History 163: Get Excited & Carry On
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Grammar. Nazis. Does the grammatical ‘release the conceptual’? - James Edward Carroll (Read article)
17 Shaping the debate: why historians matter more than ever at GCSE - Rachel Foster and Kath Goudie (Read article)
25 Cunning plan 1:...
Teaching History 163: Get Excited & Carry On