A Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School

Dan Keates, Matt Stanford, Corinne Goullée

$62.99

Paperback

Forthcoming
Pre-Order now

QTY:

English

Routledge
09 April 2025

Secondary schools; Teacher training; Teaching skills & techniques; Teaching of a specific subject

Series: Routledge Teaching Guides

A Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School offers comprehensive advice, inspiration and a wide range of tried and tested approaches to help you find success in the secondary history classroom. Covering all aspects of history teaching, it is designed for you to dip in and out of and to enable you to focus on specific areas of teaching, your programme or pupils’ learning.

This completely revised edition has been rewritten with new chapters reflecting recent work into curriculum thought, different types of historical knowledge, designing enquiry questions and decolonising the curriculum. Emphasising the importance of pedagogy, detailed subject knowledge, a well-informed and diverse curriculum, evidence-informed practice and a focus on building long-term student understanding in the subject, the chapters cover:

Curriculum design Teaching causation and consequence Teaching interpretation and significance Using evidence Delivering a more inclusive and representative history curriculum Progress and assessment

Packed with ideas, resources and practical teaching activities and underpinned by the latest research, this is an essential companion for all training and early career history teachers.

Edited by: Dan Keates, Matt Stanford, Corinne Goullée
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 297mm, Width: 210mm,
ISBN: 9781032393544
ISBN 10: 1032393548
Series: Routledge Teaching Guides
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 09 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Dan Keates is Deputy Head Teacher at Framingham Earl High School in Norfolk. Matt Stanford is National Lead for History for Astrea Academy Trust. Corinne Goullée taught history for eight years at Cottenham Village College in Cambridgeshire.