1st Edition

Liberating the National History Curriculum

By Josna Pankhania Copyright 1994
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

Once there were bards who sang the songs which kept the listeners in touch with their past. They reminded them of the heroes who once walked among them and whose legacy provided a sense of shared greatness and national identity. Later, the bards became historians and history teachers and English history became a glorious roll call of those who had gone out and created an Empire and, at the same... Read more

List of Figures.  Acknowledgements.  Foreword.  Introduction.  1. Making Sense of Inequalities in Society  2. The Unmasking of Black History  3. The Denial of Black History in the National Education Policies  4. Liberating the National History Curriculum  5. Weaving a People’s History into the National Curriculum.  Conclusion.  Appendix 1: Key Stage 3 Core Study Unit 3 The Making of the United Kingdom: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples 1500-1750.  Appendix 2: Key Stage 3 Supplementary Study Units.  References.  Index.

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Pankhania, Josna