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Keep your head when all those around you are losing theirs
With the curriculum consultation nearly complete Esther Arnott offers her view on what a history teacher could and should be doing right now to continue to develop good practice.... 
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Posted by Jim Belben on 15/04/2013 10:12:27 AM | with 0 comments
Charged with being 'anti-knowledge' a History teacher's response
With the closing date for responses to the proposed history curriculum rapidly appraoching, Katherine Edwards returns to our 'open mic' with some comments on the place of historical knowledge in the history curriculum.
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Posted by Jim Belben on 12/04/2013 3:21:46 PM | with 0 comments
Cause for concern?
Following Michael Gove's tirade in the Daily Mail against the opponents of his curriculum review John Clare has dissected the article and its assumptions in his recent blog (Another Rant). So this entry simply links to John's excellent, if disturbing, critique that gives all of us involved in History education 'Cause for concern'! 

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Posted by Jim Belben on 25/03/2013 12:41:33 PM | with 0 comments
We teach History, not propaganda
Today we welcome to our 'curriculum review' series of blogs, Katherine Edwards. She is a secondary History teacher of 12 years’ experience, author of the e-petition Keep the History Curriculum Politically Neutral, and of the website Historynotpropaganda.weebly.com and campaigner against the proposed new history curriculum. 

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Posted by Jim Belben on 22/03/2013 11:06:46 AM | with 4 comments
What knowledge? Whose knowledge?

We continue our series of blogs about the National Curriculum review

Today we welcome Martin Spafford who is Subject Leader for History at George Mitchell School, Waltham Forest and a member of the Black and Asian Studies Association.

In this blog Martin comments on how the proposed curriculum (mis)handles Britain’s culturally diverse History.

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Posted by Jim Belben on 20/03/2013 5:42:41 PM | with 0 comments
Draft National Curriculum for History: Have Your Say

For the next in our series of 'open mic' blogs we welcome back Alex Ford who attended the consultation in Leeds on 13th March 2013.
 

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Posted by Jim Belben on 18/03/2013 3:13:57 PM | with 0 comments
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