Teaching history is a maddening blur. From class to class, keystage to keystage, year to year, through assessment and skills, to content, final levels and added value; the day to day concerns of a history teacher can often obscure the bigger picture. This bigger picture consists partly of why we teach history at all...
Read more →Simon Ross (of www.ilovehistory.co.uk) and I have been doing some revision “to-go” for today’s ipod generation. If you’re a student doing GCSE Modern World History, then you could do worse than pop over to Simon’s site and subscribe to the RSS feed.
Read more →As we have already seen, for Peter Lee “The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils” (Lee 1991: 43). Lee’s school history “changes what see and how they see it” (Lee 1991:43) This much could be said of any form of schooling and any form...
Read more →My server was obviously so suprised at me making no posts recently that it fell down – do stay tuned though – there’s one coming… By the way, my old theme doesn’t seem to like wp. 2.01, and this one is nice, but I hate the dog. Anyone willing to offer free consultancy to...
Read more →One of the most crystalline of all the purposes of school history is that of “for its own sake”. History for its own sake calls up a vision, or spectre, of a monkish student combing through an archive, or navigating piles of books, absorbed, transcended by the study of history. In school this implies...
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