Similarity & difference
The inclusion of ‘similarity and difference’ as a second-order concept within the National Curriculum is essentially concerned with helping students to move beyond stereotypical assumptions about people in the past, to recognise and analyse the diversity of past experience. While some degree of generalisation is essential in making claims about the past, paying attention to the extent of similarity and difference between different sorts of people – and between people within the same group – is important in helping students to appreciate the reality of past lives. This collection of resources illustrates the ways in which teachers can help students to recognise the complexity of past societies, without being overwhelmed by it, and how teachers can plan for progression in students’ analysis of the extent and nature of similarity and difference. Read more
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Connecting past and present through the lens of enduring human issues: International Women’s Day protests
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Using the present to construct a meaningful picture of the medieval past
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Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference
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What’s The Wisdom On... Similarity and difference?
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Cunning Plan 177: teaching about life in Elizabethan England by looking at death
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‘Man, people in the past were indeed stupid’
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Triumphs Show 167: Keeping the 1960s complicated
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Cunning Plan 167: teaching the industrial revolution
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Using databases to explore the real depth in the data
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New, Novice or Nervous? 155: Similarity & Difference
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Year 9 face up to historical difference
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Cunning Plan 149.2: Exploring the Migration experience
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Triumphs Show 148.1: collaborating to commemorate Olaudah Equiano
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Where are we? The place of women in history curricula
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Hidden histories and heroism: post-14 course on multi-cultural Britain since 1945
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How my interest in what I don't teach has informed my teaching and enriched my students' learning
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Exploring pupils' difficulties when arguing about a diverse past
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'Doing justice to history': the learning of African history in a North London secondary school
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Witchcraft - Using fiction with Year 8s
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A comparative revolution?
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