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Visions of America: Using Historical Discourse to Find Narrative Coherence in the GCSE Period Study
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Ford, Alex – Teaching History, 2019
When planning a GCSE period study on the American West, Alex Ford wrestled with reconciling the content demands of the examination specifications with the need to provide his students with a memorable narrative. In this article, Ford shows how he drew on the latest academic scholarship to construct a rigorous, coherent narrative outlining the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Attribution Theory, Western Civilization