Parachutists and truffle hunters

As a PGCE student, Miles Eades confronted the challenge of teaching about change and continuity. Reflecting on scientific, mathematical and sociological conceptualisations of change as a constantly occurring process led him to reconsider the common characterisation of continuity in history as the opposite of or absence of change. Eades set out to design an enquiry about India during the Second World War in which pupils would explore continuity conceptualised in another way. He shares here his rationale and planning, as well his reflections on the pupil outcomes...