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Apps, Kerry – Teaching History, 2019
Readers of this journal will be familiar with a number of ways of approaching the Tudors. Kerry Apps provides here an article detailing her concerns about the differences between what she had been delivering at Key Stage 3 and the broader, connected experience she had as an undergraduate historian. How could she show her students that the world of…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Historians, Undergraduate Students
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FitzGerald, Edward – Teaching History, 2017
History teachers have frequently made recourse to character cards as a device to help young people, each assigned specific roles, to understand how different kinds of people responded in different ways to particular situations in the past. Edward FitzGerald builds on this tradition, demonstrating the value of using rich historical accounts to help…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Classification, Teaching Methods, Historians
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Fowle, Mark; Egelnick, Ben – Teaching History, 2013
Most history teachers will, at some point, recognise the tension between teaching an engaging history course while at the same time meeting the requirements of an exam specification. Mark Fowle and Ben Egelnick reflect here on how they approached teaching a formal requirement of an exam specification. Rather than see "controlled…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Investigations, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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White, Jonathan – Teaching History, 2011
Although the curriculum changes of 2008 brought with them new GCSE specifications, Jonathan White was disappointed by the dated feel of some "Modern World" options, particularly the depth studies on offer. Drawing on his experience of teaching comparative history within the International Baccalaureate, and building on previous arguments…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Conflict, Islam
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Stephen, Alison – Teaching History, 2005
How often do our students long for black and white rather than the shades of grey that history generally presents us with? Understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about understanding diversity and complexity in all their shades of grey. Alison Stephen, teaching in an immensely diverse school herself, is determined not to over-simplify the…
Descriptors: Conflict, Arabs, Jews, Foreign Countries
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Woolley, Mary – Teaching History, 2004
Mary Woolley decided to make four revision sheets for her lower-band Year 11 set. Each was to help them view their American West study through a different lens. She was rather uncertain, however (and so were the pupils) about her fourth sheet on places. Her reflections on the revision sheet and subsequent reading led not only to a totally new…
Descriptors: Conflict, United States History, History Instruction, High School Students