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The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England 2011th Edition

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The fruit of a two-year research project, this ground-breaking book aims to provide the first historical account of the teaching of history in twentieth-century England, and a series of reflections and suggestions which will inform, feed into and influence the current and future debates about teaching in schools.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0230300871
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0230300873
  3. Edition
    2011th
  4. Publisher
    Palgrave Macmillan
  5. Publication date
    November 18, 2011
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    5.51 x 0.73 x 8.5 inches
  8. Print length
    319 pages
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'Their book should be compulsory reading for anyone wanting to take part in the current discussion about history teaching and its future in our schools. At a single stroke, this book puts the whole debate onto a more sophisticated and grown-up level.'

- The Independent

'They make a strong, persuasive case and it's possible that history may one day be complusory to 16 as part of a Baccalaureate style curriculum.'

- BBC History Magazine, David Nicholls, Emeritus Professor of History, Manchester Metropolitan University

About the Author

SIR DAVID CANNADINE is currently Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, having previously taught at Cambridge University and Columbia University, and been Director of the Institute of Historical Research and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of History in the University of London. Among his many books are The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, G.M.Trevelyan: A Life in History, Class in Britain, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire, Mellon: An American Life, and Making History Now and Then.

DR JENNY KEATING has degrees from the University of Sussex and Monash University. She has been a museum curator, teacher, advice worker and journalist and, while living in Australia, worked as a commissioned historian. After returning to the UK she completed a DPhil, published as A Child for Keeps: The History of Adoption in England, 1918-45, and is currently a Research Fellow for the History in Education Project at the Institute of Historical Research.

DR NICOLA SHELDON has degrees from Manchester and Oxford Universities. She worked for 16 years in secondary education, in both teaching and management roles, before completing her doctorate on the history of truancy. She has published articles in the journal History of Education and on contemporary educational issues via www.historyandpolicy.org. She now works for the Institute of Education in teacher training.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 2011th edition (November 18, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 319 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0230300871
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0230300873
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 0.73 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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3.0 out of 5 stars Policy, not history
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2013
The project is worthy to enquire how history has been taught in England in the last century or so, as there is very little British history of education generally, and almost nothing on history itself as a subject. The authors moreover make the interesting point that the same debates about insufficient basic classroom knowledge and about the teaching of facts versus skills have been repeating themselves for much longer than tabloid writers care to remember. The Right Kind of History is worth reading for its ambitious scope, its somewhat surprising message, and its final chapters on the post-1980s history curriculum, which are the strongest.

At the same time, this must be put in context, and the reader must be aware that Cannadine wrote this with the agenda of shaping the curriculum's latest iteration, so far without success. Large and somewhat repetitive sections of the book, which is otherwise organised chronologically, concern the department of education and its mandarins, and national education policy. While this was indeed of relevance to the classroom, the result is nevertheless that the book dedicates more space to policy than to actual teaching. How society, empire, the war, the loss of empire, or the rise of the welfare state affected what was actually taught to pupils only gets a disappointingly limited amount of space. The authors don't provide enough information to judge, for example, how imperial was history as taught in the late Victoria era, or whether it resembled the Whig version of history then prevalent in academia. They could have made more use of classroom sources, whether originating in history examinations, in textbooks, or in surviving classroom material. What interested me as I began this book, and probably will interest most readers, is what was actually taught and how that changed. While the authors use some grassroots material, notably interviews, their use of such sources is too limited to provide enough colour on history as subject. Hang on for the final chapters, then, as you plod through the useful but slightly repetitive earlier sections.
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guthrum
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2018
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Superb overview of 20th century teaching of History
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M. A. WATKISS
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2013
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The book itself is a very interesting read. I enjoyed it.

It arrived speedily and in excellent condition. Very good.
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Peter Lawrence
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 1, 2016
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not the book i wanted but not the sellers fault
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Tre
4.0 out of 5 stars For my Daughter
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2013
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I purchased this book for my daughter who is doing a Masters in Education with History, she informs me it is exactly what she wanted.
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J. Nenova
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 8, 2014
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Very interesting.
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