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Primary Humanities--A Perspective from Northern Ireland
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Greenwood, Richard; Richardson, Norman; Gracie, Anita – Education 3-13, 2017
The word "humanities" does not appear in the current Northern Ireland Curriculum (NIC). Geography and history are taught within an Area of Learning called "The World Around Us" which also contains science and technology. The curriculum has a strong emphasis on an integrated, "connected learning" way of teaching and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Humanities Instruction, Elementary Education, Educational History
Subject-Based and Cross-Curricular Approaches within the Revised Primary Curriculum in Northern Ireland: Teachers' Concerns and Preferred Approaches
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Greenwood, Richard – Education 3-13, 2013
A revision of the Northern Ireland Primary Curriculum took place in 2007. It promotes strongly a cross-curricular or thematic approach to planning and teaching and has an "Area of Learning" structure which includes geography alongside history and science and technology in an area called "The World Around Us". Responses from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Integrated Curriculum