Teaching Appeasement in the Classroom with Year 9 Pupils at King Edward VII School, Sheffield

 
This enquiry is designed to help students to understand the turbulent political and social atmosphere of 1938 and develop their understanding of what mattered to people in the past. By examining this period through a lens of emotion history, students will also have the opportunity to develop their disciplinary understanding of similarity and difference. The enquiry lessons allow students to ‘Think like an historian’ and curate rather than narrate the process that Gottlieb has undertaken.

The enquiry includes FL Lucas’ diary, Mass Observation and Nicola Baldwin’s play to enrich student appreciation of different experiences of the ‘permacrisis’ of 1938 and the importance of reconstructing hidden voices from the past.

1. Introduction to the research

2. Recruiting research assistants

3. Choosing sources challenge

4. Permacrisis and its relevance to our own society

5. The importance of knowledge exchange