
A Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School
Routledge (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 9. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-032-39354-4 (ISBN)
Description
A Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School offers comprehensive advice, inspiration and a wide range of tried and tested approaches to help you find success in the secondary history classroom. Covering all aspects of history teaching, it is designed for you to dip in and out of and to enable you to focus on specific areas of teaching, your programme or pupils' learning.
This completely revised edition has been rewritten with new chapters reflecting recent work into curriculum thought, different types of historical knowledge, designing enquiry questions and decolonising the curriculum. Emphasising the importance of pedagogy, detailed subject knowledge, a well-informed and diverse curriculum, evidence-informed practice and a focus on building long-term student understanding in the subject, the chapters cover:
Curriculum design
Teaching causation and consequence
Teaching interpretation and significance
Using evidence
Delivering a more inclusive and representative history curriculum
Progress and assessment
Packed with ideas, resources and practical teaching activities and underpinned by the latest research, this is an essential companion for all training and early career history teachers.
This completely revised edition has been rewritten with new chapters reflecting recent work into curriculum thought, different types of historical knowledge, designing enquiry questions and decolonising the curriculum. Emphasising the importance of pedagogy, detailed subject knowledge, a well-informed and diverse curriculum, evidence-informed practice and a focus on building long-term student understanding in the subject, the chapters cover:
Curriculum design
Teaching causation and consequence
Teaching interpretation and significance
Using evidence
Delivering a more inclusive and representative history curriculum
Progress and assessment
Packed with ideas, resources and practical teaching activities and underpinned by the latest research, this is an essential companion for all training and early career history teachers.
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, Professional Reference, and Professional Training
Illustrations
26 s/w Tabellen, 47 farbige Abbildungen, 33 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder, 14 farbige Zeichnungen
26 Tables, black and white; 14 Line drawings, color; 33 Halftones, color; 47 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
644 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-39354-4 (9781032393544)
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Dan Keates | Matt Stanford | Corinne Goullee
A Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School
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Persons
Dan Keates is Deputy Head Teacher at Framingham Earl High School in Norfolk.
Matt Stanford is National Lead for History for Astrea Academy Trust.
Corinne Goullee taught history for eight years at Cottenham Village College in Cambridgeshire.
Matt Stanford is National Lead for History for Astrea Academy Trust.
Corinne Goullee taught history for eight years at Cottenham Village College in Cambridgeshire.
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Curriculum Design in History
Chapter 3: Planning Enquiries in History
Chapter 4: Substantive and Disciplinary Knowledge
Chapter 5: Change and Continuity
Chapter 6: Teaching Causal Reasoning
Chapter 7: Teaching Consequence
Chapter 8: Teaching Similarity/ Difference and Historical Perspective
Chapter 9: Interpretations
Chapter 10: Historical Significance
Chapter 11: Sources and Evidence
Chapter 12: 'Decolonising' the History Curriculum in Schools
Chapter 13: Progress and Assessment in History
Chapter 14: Teaching Extended Writing in History
Chapter 15: Teaching using Historical Scholarship
Chapter 16: Teaching Local History
Chapter 2: Curriculum Design in History
Chapter 3: Planning Enquiries in History
Chapter 4: Substantive and Disciplinary Knowledge
Chapter 5: Change and Continuity
Chapter 6: Teaching Causal Reasoning
Chapter 7: Teaching Consequence
Chapter 8: Teaching Similarity/ Difference and Historical Perspective
Chapter 9: Interpretations
Chapter 10: Historical Significance
Chapter 11: Sources and Evidence
Chapter 12: 'Decolonising' the History Curriculum in Schools
Chapter 13: Progress and Assessment in History
Chapter 14: Teaching Extended Writing in History
Chapter 15: Teaching using Historical Scholarship
Chapter 16: Teaching Local History