Ruth Mather writes on the benefits of interrogating history curriculum bias in a school setting, and discusses the benefits to both students and educators of doing so.
Tag: history curriculum
Educating the Nation(s): History, Identity and Citizenship after Devolution
Report & audio from this one-day conference which examined issues of history, identity and citizenship across an increasingly divergent, multi-national UK state.
History Fieldwork – Do Our Students Get Out Enough?
Should history take a good look at geography and geology, where out-of-school learning and field trips are considered an essential part of the school and university curriculum?
The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England
A review of Cannadine, Keating & Sheldon’s “The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England” by John Gardiner
Is This ‘Why History Still Matters’?
Why history still matters’ – that’s the title (in the paper at least) of a piece by Simon Schama in the Guardian’s g2. Is the teaching of history principally about instilling a common identity – to help kids ‘grasp what it means to be British today’?
