Do Mention the War' : the impact of a National Curriculum study unit upon pupils' perceptions of contemporary German people
Teaching History article
By Paul Coman, published 31st August 2001
What preconceptions do your pupils hold about the Second World War and about German people? How far have these been influenced by home background, by personal experience, by film, by sport, by the Key Stage 2 history curriculum? Paul Coman argues that the last of these deserves greater attention, at the level of both policy and practice. Analysing the perceptions of Year 6 pupils, he calls for a more detailed examination of the German wartime context within school history.
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