Improving Teaching and Learning in the Humanities (Developing Primary Practice)

Focuses on religious education, history, geography and cross-curricular planning in the primary school. It includes discussion of the purpose of education, and how the humanities fit with this purpose, with particular reference to the 1998 Education Act and 1994 National Curriculum Review. The book deals with the themes of time, place, values, communication, responsibilities and decision-making. These link the chapters, and are fully complemented with case studies. For each concept there are suggestions for practical classroom activities. The reader will find the book invaluable in integrating the subjects across the National Curriculum. Annotation Focusing on religious education, history, geography, and cross-curricular planning in the UK primary school, this book discusses the purpose of education and how the humanities fit with this purpose. The book takes the central themes of time, place, values, communication, responsibilities, and decision-making, and is fully complemented with case studies. For each concept there are suggestions for practical classroom activities This text focuses on religious education, history, geography and cross-curricular planning in the primary school. It includes discussion of the purpose of education, and how the humanities fit into this, with particular reference to the 1998 Education Act and 1994 National Curriculum Review In this chapter we look at what the humanities are and why there might be a continuing need for something called a humanitarian curriculum.