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Patel, Dhwani – Teaching History, 2021
Much has been written in recent years about how historical scholarship can be used to shape practice in the classroom. As an historian of the medieval period now working as an history teacher, Dhwani Patel offers a fresh perspective on these debates. During her PGCE year, Patel found herself reflecting on how the lenses and methodologies that…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Interdisciplinary Approach, History Instruction, Secondary School Students
Pitblado, Michael; Chalas, Agnieszka – Teaching History, 2022
Michael Pitblado and Agnieszka Chalas, history teacher and art teacher respectively, describe how and why they responded to a call by Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to engage students with difficult aspects of Canada's past, including the forced cultural assimilation of Indigenous peoples through the Indian Residential School System.…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Conflict Resolution, Land Settlement, American Indians
Bird, Michael; Wilson, Katherine Anne; Egan-Simon, Daryn; Jackson, Alannah; Kirkup, Richard – Teaching History, 2020
Lots has been written in recent years about how history teachers can bring academic scholarship into the classroom. This article takes this interest in academic practice a step further, examining how pupils can engage directly with the kinds of sources to which historians are increasingly turning their attention: the 'everyday' objects of ordinary…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Sensory Experience, Information Sources
Barnes, Clare – Teaching History, 2019
The raising of Henry VIII's warship, the "Mary Rose," from the sea bed set in train an extraordinary programme of interdisciplinary research, relentlessly pursuing the clues to Tudor life and death provided by the remains of the ship, its cargo and crew. In this article Clare Barnes offers fascinating insights into the way in which this…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Secondary School Students, European History, Interdisciplinary Approach
Fletcher-Wood, Harry – Teaching History, 2016
Readers of "Teaching History" will be familiar with the benefits and difficulties of cross-curricular planning, and the pages of this journal have often carried analysis of successful collaborations with the English department, or music, or geography. Harry Fletcher-Wood describes in this article a collaboration involving maths,…
Descriptors: History Instruction, History, Interdisciplinary Approach, Mathematics Instruction
Hawkey, Kate; James, Jon; Tidmarsh, Celia – Teaching History, 2016
Inspired by the news that Bristol had become the UK's first Green Capital, Kate Hawkey, Jon James and Celia Tidmarsh set out to explore what a "Green Capital" School Curriculum might look like. Hawkey, James and Tidmarsh explain how they created a cross-curricular project to deliver in-school workshops focused on the teaching of climate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Woodcock, James – Teaching History, 2013
James Woodcock continues his theme from "Teaching History 138" about the difference between superficial, thematic cross-curricularity and much more rigorous interdisciplinarity. His concern is to retain rather than compromise the integrity of the subject disciplines. Woodcock argues that interdisciplinary working adds value to learning…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, History Instruction, Music Education, Death
Watkin, Neal; Ahrenfelt, Johannes – Teaching History, 2005
What should we do with our brightest and best? Neal Watkin and Johannes Ahrenfelt suggest an enquiry for a very high ability Year 8 group which is both challenging and genuinely historical. The enquiry itself has cross-curricular elements within its historical framework: it draws on geography, sociology and citizenship. This should not distract us…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Academically Gifted, Inquiry, Active Learning
Monaghan, Mandy; McConnell,Tony – Teaching History, 2005
Several articles in previous editions of "Teaching History" have touched on the themes of cross curricularity, Assessment for Learning and the most able. Tony McConnell and Mandy Monaghan bring these themes together in describing how the English and history departments in their school have taken advantage of a natural area of overlap to…
Descriptors: History Instruction, English Instruction, Secondary School Students, Academically Gifted