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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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Is Classroom Discussion a Dying Art?

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The questions need to be open-ended enough to spark conversation between multiple groups, says Gannon, who also teaches history. Students from higher-income households are more likely to have received extra support, such as in-person tutoring, before college. The papers keep rotating until theyre back with their original group.