Learning and Teaching the Humanities

This text focuses on religious education, history, geography and cross-curricular planning in the primary school. It includes discussion of the purpose of education, and how the humanities fit with this purpose, with particular reference to the 1998 Education Act and 1994 National Curriculum Review. The book takes the themes of time, place, values, communication, responsibilities and decision-making. These link the chapters, and are complemented with case studies. For each concept there are suggestions for practical classroom activities. The reader should find the book of use in integrating the subjects across the National Curriculum, avoiding single subject focus.