Teaching History 132: Historians in the classroom
Issue number: 132
Laura Bellinger Cultivating curiosity about complexity: what happens when Year 12 start to read Orlando Figes' The Whisperers? Alison Meikle ‘Billy plays the drums but Lizzie cannot play.' Will music-making help them both anyway? Year 7 use musical language to think about King John, Cunning plan, Martin Loy Learning to read, reading to learn: strategies to move students from ‘keen to learn' to ‘keen to read', Polychronicon, Stephan Klein History, citizenship and Oliver Stone: classroom analysis of a key scene in Nixon, Richard Harris and Terry Haydn Children's ideas about school history and why they matter, Oliver Knight A hankering for the blank spaces: enabling the very able to explore the limits of GCSE history and much more...
Contributions by: Oliver Knight, Laura Bellinger, Orlando Figes, Alison Meikle, Martin Loy, Stephen Klein, Richard Harris and Terru Haydn