3. What level of prescription would the panel be happy with in the national curriculum in history?

 

 

3.1 Michael Riley - Prescribed diversity in the curriculum - prescribing broad areas of both substantive historical knoweldge reinforce concepts and processes in the curriculum. A need to radically overhaul GCSE history. The need for a wider range of periods. An entitlement to local, national and wider world history.

 

3.2 Simon Harrison - Maintaining the flexibiilty for students to create their own sense of narrative and their own grand arc of history.

 

 

3.3 Simon Schama - Fears of over prescribing history.

 

3.4 Claire Buxton - Prescribing chronology so that students as they move from primary to secondary don't repeat too much.

 

 

3.5 Barbara Sands - Primary - Prescription to create transferable skills and creating passion in students.

 

3.6 Audience response - Secondary history building on the work done by primary teachers/students. The usefulness of repetition.

 

3.7 Audience - Lack in provision of textbooks limiting teachers' work. Widening the options of history that students can learn - what are the outcomes we want for our students from their history lessons?

 

3.8 Audience response - What about women's history, LGBT history, black history? Lack of textbook support. Challenging prejudice and stereotypes.

 

 

3.9 Ben Walsh - The ability to do a lot of the discussed histories within the current framework. The need for teachers to do research beyond the core textbooks.