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Responding to a summer of riots: Principles for teaching about sensitive issues in the history classroom

Becoming a History Teacher

But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

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Unpacking the ‘British Values’ Although promoting fundamental ‘British Values’ as part of spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development in maintained schools is non-statutory, these values do go a long way in ensuring establishments can meet their obligations under section 78 of the Education Act 2002 (Gov.UK, 2014). McPhee and V.-M.