John,
I largely agree - but at least the slave trade is still there and any
teaching of the British Empire must involve teaching about diversity
and the historical origins of modern British society. Any good teacher
worth their salt can take this and teach imaginatively.
Also, diversity is mentioned explicitly in the Citizenship curriculum.
My main issue - echoing Dave - is the shear amount of chronology
crammed into KS2.
Don
Don Henson
Freelance Consultant in Public Archaeology and Education
See my web pages at
http://www.independent.academia.edu/DonHenson
http://nowthenuk.wordpress.com
and my new book, Doing Archaeology, at
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415602129/
I am also Hon. Director of CASPAR
Centre for Audio-Visual Study and Practice in Archaeology
Institute of Archaeology
University College London
This is deeply depressing on many scores: it appears to be basically a
white ruling class, Little Englander view of history as mainly great
men and women, kings queens and government- as taught circa 1960?
It ignores diversity, most of social history and culture and the wider
world- and most developments in history teaching and cultural learning
in the last 40 years.
It seems designed to put generations of children off history and to
ignore completely the reasons we (including through GEM and its
representatives on the Schools Council and Dearing review) advocated
change and museum/ heritage content at various stages in the evolution
of the NC. The evidence for all that is still there- and we can show
the evidence for the benefits of what we in museums and heritage have
done to inspire children and teachers since the introduction of the NC.
Perhaps the main issues we should concentrate on in our response are:
The importance of starting children off from the local and tangible (the
current local history element) and certainly not from prehistory- the
most remote stretch of history which museums and heritage organisations
find most challenging to bring to life.
The proven success and stimulus of direct contact with the past and
with the widest possible range of evidence-museums galleries sites
photographs archives etc (as explicitly stated in the NC from the start)
We could also argue as I'm sure the Historical Association will that
you can develop a sense of chronology and time (admittedly a problem
with the old NC) without plodding through the whole of political and
'national' history.
We should also be prepared [if it goes through] to provide a massive
amount of CPD for (probably demoralised) teachers, as we did when the
NC was first brought in- then the challenge was dealing with among
others ancient Greece, Rome, Aztecs, Benin, China etc!
We will have a crucial role to play in bringing large tracts of British
history to life for children at KS1-3 so they still want to do History
at KS4 and stay interested for the rest of their lives.
John
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Exactly my first thoughts Neil!
Jane
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I presume it isn't only me who glanced over that document and wondered
how on earth teachers are going to cover the quantity of KS2 stuff in
any meaningful way.
And how well 6-7 year olds (KS1) are actually going to be able to cope
with 'concepts such as civilisation, monarchy, parliament, democracy,
and war and peace that are essential to understanding history'
Neil
On 7 February 2013 14:42, Willis, Josephine (ACS, Cultural Services)
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History may not be compulsory, but the reorganisation of how it should
be taught up to KS3 in a chronological order opens new potential all
round, not only for the subjects we are used to promoting but also new
historical periods.
Jo Willis
Senior Museum Learning Assistant
The Commandery
Sidbury, Worcester, WR1 2HU
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Sent: 07 February 2013 13:04
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Thanks for sending this out to everyone Liz. Sadly no compulsory
history for 14-16 year olds.
Museums should especially note - no Victorians at KS2!! and hopefully
the six wives could be finally put to rest as well ...
best wishes
Lesley
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On 07/02/2013, at 12:21 PM, Liz Denton wrote:
Dear All
The new draft documents for England has just been made available
http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/curriculum/nationalc
urriculum2014/b00220600/consultation-national-curriculum-pos
http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/pdf/n/national%20curriculum%20con
sultation%20-%20framework%20document.pdf
As the DfE website states
On 7 February 2013,
<http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/pdf/n/national%20curriculum%20co
nsultation%20-%20framework%20document.pdf> draft programmes of study
for all National Curriculum subjects in Key Stages 1 to 3, and draft
programmes of study for citizenship, computing and PE in Key Stage 4,
were published for consultation.
It makes for very interesting reading ,,,,,,particularly at KS2
History...
Best wishes
Liz
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