Who are we?

How might ideas from social science help history teachers and their students make sense of multiple and hybrid identities in a complex world? Magnoff, Tengra and Walker explore their pupils’ thinking about identity over time and the ways in which they have sought through their long-term curriculum planning to develop understandings that can help their students think in nuanced and historical ways about plural identities. They draw on ideas from social science about relational identities to do this, and demonstrate how substantive concepts of this general nature can enable progression in knowledge and understanding over time...