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                                                                                Helping Year 8 to understand historians’ narrative decision-making
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History articleWhile previous work on historical interpretations has focused students’ attention on the particular questions that historians have been asking or the context in which they have been posing those questions, less attention has been paid to the process of historical narration itself – the decisions that are made in telling... Helping Year 8 to understand historians’ narrative decision-making
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                                                                                The International Journal Volume 6
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    JournalArticles 
Isabel Barca and Helena PintoHow Children Make Sense of Historic Streets: Walking through Downtown Guimaraes 
 
Min Fui CheeTraining Teachers for the Effective Use of Museums 
 
Terrie EpsteinThe Effects of Family/Community and School Discourses on Children's and Adolescents' Interpretations of United States History 
 
David GerwinObject Lessons: Teachers,... The International Journal Volume 6
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                                                                                Cultural and historical heritage of Ukraine
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Historian articleOlha Makliuk outlines the challenges faced by Ukraine as Russia tries to rewrite the narrative of Ukrainian sovereignty. Through a process of historical and cultural appropriation as well as the destruction of monuments, she explores how history has been weaponised by the Putin regime. Finally, she considers how the impact... Cultural and historical heritage of Ukraine
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                                                                                Triumphs Show: Year 9 explore what permacrisis might have felt like in 1938
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History featureIn April 2023, I attended an event at the University of Sheffield with my colleague, Katy Dixon, and a handful of our Year 10 historians. The event showcased the work of Professor Julie V. Gottlieb and playwright Nicola Baldwin who had written a play about the writer and critic of... Triumphs Show: Year 9 explore what permacrisis might have felt like in 1938
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                                                                                Art and ecology
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Historian articleArtworks and objects from the past provide us with a compelling record of human interaction with the natural world. In this article, art historians Carla Benzan and Samuel Shaw explain how they are using collections from galleries and museums to bring environmental history to new audiences and to increase awareness... Art and ecology
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                                                                                Confronting conflicts: history teachers’ reactions to spontaneous controversial remarks
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History articleSometimes, things don’t go to plan. Current events come into the classroom, especially the history classroom. How should students’ responses to current affairs be dealt with there? How should students’ desire  to voice their opinions be handled if their opinion is unpopular. What if the student is simply wrong? How... Confronting conflicts: history teachers’ reactions to spontaneous controversial remarks
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                                                                                From Norwich to Nara
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Historian articleSimon Kaner explores the fascinating parallels revealed by the international research project From Nara to Norwich between life and religious belief at the ends of the Silk Roads.
Nara is the ancient capital region of Japan. The eighth century imperial treasury, the Shōsōin, with its treasures from China and central Asia, is... From Norwich to Nara
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                                                                                Rescuing assessment from ‘knowledge-rich gone wrong’
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History articleChristine Counsell sets out her concerns about the effects on history teaching of recent trends in secondary assessment practice. Situating her analysis within a long-term story of interplay between government policy, classroom practice and school leadership responses to inspection, Counsell sees new distortions emerging in the name of knowledge. She argues... Rescuing assessment from ‘knowledge-rich gone wrong’
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                                                                                Maximising the power of storytelling in the history classroom
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History articleJames Hopkins’s Year 10 class had been excited by their course on medicine through time, but were less enthused about their new study of Norman England. They told him that the topic felt ‘distant’ and ‘not real’. Recalling his own experience as a student, Hopkins was interested in the ways... Maximising the power of storytelling in the history classroom
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                                                                                ‘I need to know…’: creating the conditions that make students want knowledge
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History journal articleChloe Bateman recognised the value to her Key Stage 3 pupils of developing rich subject knowledge, but wanted to find a way of encouraging them to value that knowledge for themselves. In this article she explains how she provided that inspiration by setting her Year 7 class the challenge of... ‘I need to know…’: creating the conditions that make students want knowledge
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                                                                                Move Me On 144: Defines GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History featureThis issue's problem: Roger Wendover has come to define GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions.
Roger is a few weeks into his second placement and his mentor, John, has been taken aback by the rigid approach that he has adopted in teaching Year 10. John was... Move Me On 144: Defines GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions
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                                                                                Imagining cities: exploring historical sites as contested spaces
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History articleGeraint Brown and Matt Stanford share the daunting challenge and intriguing opportunities that are presented by leading a school history trip to a site as complex as Berlin. That the city is a palimpsest, layered with stories and tissued with conflicting identities, experiences and meanings, makes planning a trip extremely... Imagining cities: exploring historical sites as contested spaces
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                                                                                The International Journal Volume 5 Number 1
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    JournalFrançois AudigierHistory in the Curriculum 
 
Nadine Fink Pupils' Conceptions of History and History Teaching 
 
Philippe HaeberliRelating to History: an Empirical Typology 
 
Peter LeeHistorical Literacy 
 
Keith Barton and Alan W. McCullyLearning History and Inheriting the Past: the Interaction of School and Community Perspectives in Northern Ireland 
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                                                                                How to make historical simulations adaptable, engaging and manageable
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History articlePlease note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Dan Moorhouse suggests that history teachers are sometimes put off role-play or simulations because the amount of preparation - intellectual and practical - appears both time-consuming and expensive. He argues that effective simulations need be... How to make historical simulations adaptable, engaging and manageable
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                                                                                Move Me On 191: using sources in lessons
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History feature
Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon... Move Me On 191: using sources in lessons
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                                                                                Move Me On 142: Makes assumptions about students' thinking
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History featureThis issue's problem: Rob Collingwood keeps just making assumptions about his students' thinking.
Rob Collingwood seemed to make a very promising start to his first school placement, but as time goes on his mentor is becoming concerned about the lack of connection between Rob's thinking and that of his students. Rob... Move Me On 142: Makes assumptions about students' thinking
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                                                                                Bringing historical method into the classroom
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History articleShortly before their final A-level examination, Peter Turner was alarmed to discover some fundamental weaknesses in his Year 13 students’ understanding of the nature of historical interpretations. Determined to address this concern at a much earlier point with his next cohort of students he developed a new six-lesson enquiry. His... Bringing historical method into the classroom
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                                                                                Pull-out posters: Primary History 93
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Coronations
Poster 1: What continuities and change can you see in coronations from the distant to recent past?
Poster 2: Some objects used or presented at a coronation
 Pull-out posters: Primary History 93
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                                                                                Significance
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Primary History articleWhat makes a person or event significant? When looking at the past, some people or events stand out in our minds. Individuals such as Florence Nightingale or Walter Tull at Key Stage 1 or events such as the Blitz at Key Stage 2 may have particular resonance. However, if we... Significance
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                                                                                English first-aid organisations and the Provisional IRA mainland bombing campaign of 1974
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Historian articleBarry Doyle reveals how the devastating Provisional IRA bombing of two Birmingham public houses in 1974 led to a resurgence in first-aid training and preparation, on the scale with which we are familiar today. English first-aid organisations and the Provisional IRA mainland bombing campaign of 1974
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                                                                                The International Journal Volume 4 Number 2
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    JournalJannet van Drie and Carla van BoxtelEnhancing Collaborative Historical Reasoning by Providing Representational Guidance 
 
Nadine Fink  Pupils' Conceptions of History and History Teaching 
 
Alan HodkinsonMaturation and the Assimilation of the Concepts of Historical Time: a Symbiotic Relationship, or Uneasy Bedfellows? An Examination of the Birth-Date Effect on Educational... The International Journal Volume 4 Number 2
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                                                                                Triumphs Show: The BeBold Network
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History featureIn April 2019, I was in a bit of a rut. My enquiry questions and lesson sequences seemed stale. I felt like I had been at my school for too long. To mix things up, I secured a new role for September at a start-up school. 
Full of excitement, I... Triumphs Show: The BeBold Network
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                                                                                Using metaphor to highlight causal processes with Year 13
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    ArticleAlarmed by his students’ random use of causal language in their essays, James Edward Carroll resolved to help his students improve their understanding of causal processes. Carroll decided to introduce his students to the metaphors that historians use to describe causation in the historiography of the Salem witch trials. By modelling... Using metaphor to highlight causal processes with Year 13
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                                                                                Language and communication in the ancient world
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Primary History articleAt the beginning of the year, I really enjoyed accompanying a school trip to see the excellent Tutankhamun exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London. One of the many treasures that was on display was a gilded wooden and ivory case which the young Egyptian king would have used to... Language and communication in the ancient world
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                                                                                Historical learning using concept cartoons
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History articleAlthough perhaps unfamiliar to the majority of our readers, concept cartoons are not a new educational tool. Christoph Kühberger here lays out his rationale for using this technique, borrowed from science education, in history teaching. Concept cartoons provide a means for pupils to express such difficult historical concepts as the... Historical learning using concept cartoons