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The national curriculum for history aims to ensure that all pupils: know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the...
Jan 1, 1992 · Chapter PDF Available. THE PURPOSE OF SCHOOL HISTORY: HAS THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM GOT IT RIGHT? January 1992. In book: The Aims of School History: the National Curriculum and Beyond....
(The National Curriculum for England, published by the Department for Education (DfE), specifies the statutory content that must be taught in all state-funded, local-authority-maintained schools in England. It was most recently revised in 2013, with implementation in 2014.)
The creation of the first National Curriculum between 1989 and 1994, itself a novelty in English educational history, was seen by many on the right as the opportunity to restore the traditional national story.
This article focuses on the analysis of three textbooks that are based on the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS), a revised curriculum from the National Curriculum Statement which was implemented in 2008. The article uses one element of a historical thinking framework, the analysis of primary sources, to evaluate the textbooks.
- Linda Chisholm
The British history requirements cover changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, the Roman Empire and its impact on Britain, Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots, and the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor.
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This article summarises: what inspection evidence reveals about curriculum planning and classroom teaching what is compulsory and what is optional in the new curriculum what are the implementation issues for schools of the revised programmes of study.