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  • Hidden histories and heroism: post-14 course on multi-cultural Britain since 1945

      Teaching History Article
    A school-designed, post-14 course on multi-cultural Britain since 1945  Robin Whitburn and Sharon Yemoh describe the design of a school-generated GCSE course on the challenges that British people faced in forging a multicultural society in post-imperial Britain. Drawing on their own research into their students' experience, they build a discipline-based case...
    Hidden histories and heroism: post-14 course on multi-cultural Britain since 1945

  • We Also Served: British Asian Veterans of WW2

      We Also Served
    In search of the story of British Asian Veterans of World War Two.‘We also served' is a moving short film, which follows pupils from Beardwood and St Bede's high schools as they research why the contribution of these soldiers is not more widely recognised.
    We Also Served: British Asian Veterans of WW2

  • How history teachers can support their own and others' continued professional learning

      Teaching History article
    ‘If I wasn't learning anything new about teaching I would have left it by now!' How history teachers can support their own and others' continued professional learning Katharine Burn has a longstanding interest in history teachers' professional learning - not just the ways in which experienced teachers can support beginners,...
    How history teachers can support their own and others' continued professional learning

  • Time and Place; Using a Local Historical Site with Key Stage 2 and 3

      Time and Place
    English Heritage and the Historical Association have teamed up to provide this great new CPD guide to getting the most out of local historical sites with your classes. This easy to follow unit provides the basis for an entire unit of local study using the built heritage around you. Examples...
    Time and Place; Using a Local Historical Site with Key Stage 2 and 3

  • Triumphs Show 146: putting an enquiry together

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Department meetings have a range of purposes, and all teachers will be aware of some of the more tedious tasks that have to be completed at such meetings. The most exciting meetings for us are those where we can sit down as a history department and design a new enquiry....
    Triumphs Show 146: putting an enquiry together

  • The International Journal Volume 9 Number 2

      IJHLTR
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 9, Number 2 - Autumn/Winter 2010 ISSN 1472-9466   1. Editorial Hilary Cooper and Jon Nichol. 04 2. Articles Eleni Apostolidou 06 Oscillating Between the Recent Past and the Remote Past: The Perceptions of the Past and the Discipline of History...
    The International Journal Volume 9 Number 2

  • Supporting resources

      Information
    A wealth of resources exist on the rest of the HA website and on the HA Secondary Committee’s blog onebighistorydepartment (OBHD) to help teachers and to support better history teaching. In addition, many books and articles have been published that are easily available to school history teachers. On this page you...
    Supporting resources

  • Move Me On 145: Uncomfortable with Storytelling

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Claudia Jones is very uncomfortable with any kind of sustained story-telling. Claudia Jones is a quietly spoken and rather nervous trainee. She struggled from the beginning of the PGCE to establish a strong  presence in the classroom, and although she has become more assertive about insisting on basic...
    Move Me On 145: Uncomfortable with Storytelling

  • The International Journal Volume 7 Number 1

      Journal
    Articles Dursun DilekUsing a Thematic Teaching Approach Based on Pupils' Skill and Interest in Social Studies Teaching   Helena GillespieTeaching Emotive and Controversial History to 7-11 Year Olds: a Report for The Historical Association   Robert GuyverThe History Curriculum in Three Countries - Curriculum Balance, National Identity, Prescription and Teacher...
    The International Journal Volume 7 Number 1

  • The International Journal Volume 6

      Journal
    Articles 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

  • The International Journal Volume 5 Number 2

      Journal
    Articles Lieke van WijkThe Learning and Teaching of History in Europe: EUROCLIO's Enquiries Compared   Peter Brett Citizenship and the National Curriculum   Jerome FreemanThe Current State of the 4-19 History Curriculum in England and Possible Future Developments: a QCA Perspective   Jon NicholFrom Russia with Love: a History Curriculum...
    The International Journal Volume 5 Number 2

  • The International Journal Volume 5 Number 1

      Journal
    François 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  ...
    The International Journal Volume 5 Number 1

  • The International Journal Volume 4 Number 2

      Journal
    Jannet 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

  • The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial  Historical Consciousness, Teaching and Understanding History    Articles Peter Lee'Walking backwards into tomorrow' Historical consciousness and understanding history   Robert Guyver and Jon NicholFrom Novice to effective Teacher: a Study of Postgraduate Training and History Pedagogy
    The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1

  • The International Journal Volume 2 Number 1

      IJHLTR
    Editorial  - Professionalism, Scholarship, Theory and Research   Ismail DemircioÄŸlu - Does the Teaching of History in Turkey Need Reform?   Terry Haydn - Subject Discipline Dimensions of ICT and Learning: History, a Case Study   Sonia Kerrigan - Creating a Community School Museum: Theory into Practice   Romero Morante...
    The International Journal Volume 2 Number 1

  • The International Journal Volume 1 Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial  Old Wine, New Bottles : National Identity, Citizenship and the History Curriculum for the 21st Century   Articles Penelope Harnett - History in the Primary School: Re-Shaping Our Pasts. The Influence of Primary School Teachers' Knowledge and Understanding of History on Curriculum Planning and Implementation.     Laura Capita,...
    The International Journal Volume 1 Number 1

  • Move Me On 144: Defines GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions

      Teaching History feature
    This 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

  • Cunning Plan 144: promoting independent student enquiry

      Teaching History feature
    Getting students to generate their own questions can seem like a formidable challenge, even for experienced teachers with extensive subject knowledge developed over years of teaching. Imagine how much more alarming it appeared to a student-teacher being encouraged to take risks by handing more responsibility to the students. Could it...
    Cunning Plan 144: promoting independent student enquiry

  • Understanding 'change and continuity' through colours and timelines

      Teaching History article
    The small-scale research that Yosanne Vella reports in this article was driven by concern to help pupils develop ‘big picture' visions of the past and to engage effectively with the idea of change as a process rather than an event. The strategy that she adopts - asking groups of students...
    Understanding 'change and continuity' through colours and timelines

  • Seeing the historical world

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Lindsay Cassedy, Catherine Flaherty and Michael Fordham draw upon their empirical research to assess what understandings their students had of historical interpretations at the end of their compulsory education in history. They found that most students operated with an underlying epistemological model that did not reflect the...
    Seeing the historical world

  • Cunning Plan 143: enquiries about the British empire

      Teaching History journal feature
    I wanted to give my Year 8 students ownership of their work on the British Empire by allowing them to suggest our ‘enquiry question'. In order to introduce the Empire, I brought in sugar, spices, bananas, chilli peppers and cotton. I then showed maps demonstrating the Empire at its height....
    Cunning Plan 143: enquiries about the British empire

  • Move Me On 143: Trying to tackle everything at once

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Emily Hobhouse seems to feel obliged to implement all the new ideas she is learning about at once. Emily Hobhouse has made an impressive start to her PGCE course. She switched to teaching after several years' work in legal practice which meant that she was already used to...
    Move Me On 143: Trying to tackle everything at once

  • Move Me On 142: Makes assumptions about students' thinking

      Teaching History feature
    This 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

  • Cunning Plan 142: Why do historical interpretations change over time?

      Teaching History feature
    History teachers have been talking about the need to teach broad narratives, overview and chronology for a long time. They have also recognised how essential it is for students to have an opportunity to study the ways in which the past has been interpreted, and the reasons why these interpretations...
    Cunning Plan 142: Why do historical interpretations change over time?

  • Historiography from below: how undergraduates remember learning history at school

      Teaching History article
    What do our students make of the history that we teach them? As part of an introductory module on historiography, Marcus Collins asked his undergraduate students to analyse the history that they had been taught at school and college using historiographic concepts. The results make for interesting reading. What do...
    Historiography from below: how undergraduates remember learning history at school