Improving teaching and learning in the humanities

✍ Scribed by Martin Ashley

• Publisher: Falmer
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Series: Looking afresh at the primary curriculum series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Annotation

Focusing on religious education, history, geography, and cross-curricular planning in the UK primary school, this book discusses the purpose of education and how the humanities fit with this purpose. The book takes the central themes of time, place, values, communication, responsibilities, and decision-making, and is fully complemented with case studies. For each concept there are suggestions for practical classroom activities. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Series editors' preface --
The continuing value of a humanitarian curriculum --
The literacy hour and beyond --
Looking afresh at history --
Looking afresh at geography --
Using artefacts to support children's learning in religious education --
Field work, visits and work outside the classroom --
Spiritual, moral and cultural development --
Citizenship: a new word for humanities? --
ICT and the humanities --
Sustainability and the humanities --
Towards uncertain futures? --
Notes on contributors --
Index.
Abstract: Annotation

Focusing on religious education, history, geography, and cross-curricular planning in the UK primary school, this book discusses the purpose of education and how the humanities fit with this purpose. The book takes the central themes of time, place, values, communication, responsibilities, and decision-making, and is fully complemented with case studies. For each concept there are suggestions for practical classroom activities