"Painting should call out to the viewer ... and the surprised viewer should go to it, as if entering a conversation." Roger de Piles, Cours De Peinture Par...

The innovative use of visual images as communication mode and stimulus to writing is provided by Jan, a teacher on one of the Nuffield courses. Children, and...

The teacher, Angela, brought from home a large coloured picture: in the middle...

A crucial issue in using history as a vehicle for learning is the professional...

Did they always draw things on the pots which they made?IntroductionPictures...

IntroductionVisual images, paintings, sculpture, photographs, cartoons from past times are important historical sources. Accordingly, Simon Schama embeds...

In this edition we look at three resources designed to help teach local history to secondary students. Expert Alf Wilkinson, education manager for The...

I have a very old photo in my ‘archive' taken in the 1970s of a much-younger me dressed in, what can only be described as, a vague suggestion of 18th...

Introduction‘Ok children, time for history.'Distant moans from the back...

The Mantle of the ExpertThe Mantle of the Expert [MoE] dramatic system works...

IntroductionThe drama was an element in teaching a topic on Columbus with a...

IntroductionThe story of Boudicca lends itself equally well to both history and...

I begin this piece wishing I could lay my hands on my copy of John Fines' ‘The Drama of History' but it is too late now so I shall just have to manage....

I'm a newly-appointed subject leader for history. Before that I was the coordinator for the creative arts and I thought I had some excellent ideas on how...

Drama - into the unknown Drama puts the fear of God into some teachers. Some, jolly sensible souls, just don't feel dramatic, fear wearing feathered hats and...

There is a range of drama strategies that we use all the time. The important point is to select a strategy with which you feel confident. For example, the...

IntroductionWhen I visit primary schools these days it heartens me to see how often drama is used in classroom teaching. Looking back over my own career, drama...

It is now some seventeen years since the publication of our original pamphlet by the Historical Association [HA] as part of the Teaching of History Series...

If you are a little nervous of using drama in your history lessons, here is a safe way to start but look out for the many opportunities that arise for...

‘The biggest issue for school history is its limited place in the curriculum.' (Ofsted, 2007)This central concern of Ofsted's 2007 report, History in...