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Social Studies Teachers’ Resistance to Teaching Francophone Perspectives in Alberta
IJHLTR Article
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017ISSN: 14472-9474
Abstract
It is increasingly common for social studies programs to call for the teaching of multiple perspectives on past and current issues. Within the Canadian context, the province of Alberta’s social studies program mandates...
Social Studies Teachers’ Resistance to Teaching Francophone Perspectives in Alberta
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Teaching History 191: Material Worlds
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
03 Editorial (Read article)
04 HA Secondary News
06 HA Update
06 Illumination or illustration? Using eighteenth-century material culture to develop evidential thinking in Year 8 – Eleanor Dimond (Read article)
18 Fifties Britain through the senses: ‘never had it so good’? Evaluating social change and continuity in post-war Britain...
Teaching History 191: Material Worlds
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Historical Enquiries and Interpretations
Transition Training Session 1
This is the first of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transition Project:
Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations
Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history
Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history
Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc -...
Historical Enquiries and Interpretations
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On-demand Secondary CPD calendar
Information
We know that it’s not easy for teachers to access CPD: workload is high, budgets are tight and it can be difficult to get out of school. We know how essential subject-specific professional development is to you and that is why we have worked to provide a wide range of...
On-demand Secondary CPD calendar
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What to expect when you choose to study History at University
A student's guide from personal experience to challenges you may have to face
Challenges you may have to face include:
No comprehensive text
This resource is free to everyone. For access to a wealth of other online resources from podcasts to articles and publications, plus support and advice though our “How To”, examination and transition to university guides and careers resources, join the...
What to expect when you choose to study History at University
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Teaching History 194: Climate and Environment
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition of HA's Teaching History journal is free to download via the link at the bottom of the page (individual articles are also free to access).
For a subscription to Teaching History (published quarterly), plus access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and...
Teaching History 194: Climate and Environment
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On-demand webinar: Supporting planning as a mentor
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Session 2: Supporting planning
In this second webinar, Victoria and Laura model how they get beginning and early career teachers planning with a strong sense of coherence, direction and historical purpose over a sequence of lessons.
Release date: Tuesday 22...
On-demand webinar: Supporting planning as a mentor
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Planning for progression and sequencing in primary history
Primary History article
Jo Pearson uses the example of The Greetland Academy in Halifax to address the thorny issue of planning for progression and sequence. She recognises the problems of simplistic and formulaic definitions about progression. In planning the curriculum, four lenses are identified and considered to determine what is taught and when. This is a compelling...
Planning for progression and sequencing in primary history
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New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom
Teaching History feature
As another World Book Day goes past, you have been watching the English department wax lyrical about all of the wonderful books that pupils might read. You know that there is a wealth of well-written historical scholarship out there for pupils to dive into, yet you are not sure about...
New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom
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Visits and Museums
Primary History article
Introduction
In February (2012) Michael Gove announced that he was awarding English Heritage £2.7m to encourage children to explore local heritage sites. Who could disagree with his view that ‘local historic environments can be used to inspire pupils by bringing history alive'? However, why stop there? Any visit to a...
Visits and Museums
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Eyam: the plague village 1665-66
Historian article
Richard Stone explores the self-sacrifice of a Seventeenth Century village during an epidemic.
History shows us these ‘unprecedented times’ are not that far from previous historical experiences. Lockdown, quarantine, self-isolation, ‘second wave’, ‘third wave’, airborne disease, churches closed; the Covid-19 experience resonates with the plight of the villagers of Eyam, three-and-a-half centuries...
Eyam: the plague village 1665-66
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The Historian 153: The Baltic
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article for free)
8 The Duchy of Courland and a Baltic colonial venture across the ocean – John Freeman (Read article)
12 After the revolution: did Cromwell, Washington and Bonaparte betray revolutionary principles? – Gregory Gifford (Read article)
18 From Lithuania to Lancashire: life and...
The Historian 153: The Baltic
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Teaching history through the use of story: Working with early years' practitioners
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. For more current and recent articles see Using stories to support history in the EYFS and Time for a story.
In this article we argue that children in the Foundation Stage should be introduced to history as historical...
Teaching history through the use of story: Working with early years' practitioners
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Polychronicon 136: Interpreting the Beatles
Teaching History feature
‘The Beatles were history-makers from the start,' proclaimed the liner notes for the band's first LP in March 1963. It was a bold claim to make on behalf of a beat combo with one charttopping single, but the Beatles' subsequent impact on 1960s culture put their historical importance (if not...
Polychronicon 136: Interpreting the Beatles
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Teaching History 189: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 189: Collaboration
Teaching requires many kinds of knowledge, which has many different sources. One of those sources of knowledge is other professionals. But history teachers are not simply passive receivers of settled bodies of knowledge produced by others. As the pages of Teaching History attest, there is...
Teaching History 189: Out now
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The Historian 20
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Marriage of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, C N.L Brooke
10 Update: The Industrial Revolution, John J. Mason
13 Local History: Laxton: England's Last Open Field Village, John Beckett
17 Education Forum: The School History Question, Roger Hennessey
The Historian 20
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History Abridged: London’s women statues
Historian feature
History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. See all History Abridged articles
We live in a seemingly iconoclastic age. Statues that were once part of the established...
History Abridged: London’s women statues
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Triumphs Show 123: Making sources fun
Teaching History feature
One of the biggest challenges which any history teacher faces is how to make sources fun! Source work does struggles in terms of pupil excitement, understanding and motivation when pitted against the roleplays, dramas and debates. As a history teacher, I am constantly looking for fresh and novel ways to...
Triumphs Show 123: Making sources fun
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Edinburgh & the East of Scotland Branch Programme
Branch programmes
All enquiries to Ms Katie Hunter Email EdinburghandEastHA@outlook.com
Tel 07847314755 (out of working hours)
Talks USUALLY take place at 6pm in Old Medical School, Doorway 4, Edinburgh University, but always check the location of the individual event. No parking on site, good public transport.
Associate membership £20 per year. Talks...
Edinburgh & the East of Scotland Branch Programme
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Community engagement in local history
Teaching History article
This article, by Lynda Abbott and Richard Grayson, offers a fascinating example of collaboration between school and university, focused on the development of a community archive.
The project - run as an extra-curricular activity - was originally inspired by a concern to preserve the personal stories of those whose lives...
Community engagement in local history
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Teaching History 89
The HA's journal for history teachers
4 Editorial
5 Teaching History Briefing
9 'I can't remember doing Romans' by Elizabeth Wood and Cathie Holden
13 Colonies, colonials and World War II by Marika Sherwood
19 Does GCSE provide a valid assessment of the achievements of the more able? by Elizabeth Pickles
22 Time for history by...
Teaching History 89
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Year 9 - Connecting past, present and future
Teaching History article
Possible futures: using frameworks of knowledge to help Year 9 connect past, present and future
How can we help pupils integrate history into coherent ‘Big Pictures' or mental frameworks? Building on traditions of classroom research and theorising reported in earlier editions of Teaching History, Dan Nuttall reports how his department set...
Year 9 - Connecting past, present and future
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Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall
Article
Addressing issues of the legacies of racism created by the transatlantic slave trade and the narratives of its abolition
The Medlicott Medal is awarded annually for outstanding services and contributions to history. This year the Medal went to Professor Catherine Hall, who is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at...
Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall
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Film: A short history of Islamic thought
Article
In his book of the same name, A short history of Islamic thought, Dr Fitzroy Morrissey provides a concise introduction to the origins and sources of Islamic thought, from its beginnings in the 7th century to the current moment.
In this talk he explores the major ideas and introduces the...
Film: A short history of Islamic thought
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Little Jack Horner and polite revolutionaries: putting the story back into history
Teaching History article
Three years ago, Séan Lang argued that narrative, which had gone rather out of fashion, needed to be brought back into our teaching. Alf Wilkinson goes further. It is not just narrative which is needed: it is story. The move away from story is not a problem confined uniquely to...
Little Jack Horner and polite revolutionaries: putting the story back into history
