Teachers Telling Tales
Richard Kennett calls on his fellow history teachers to embrace narrative. There is no better way to inspire the historians of the future.
If you have read anything about the proposed new English and Welsh history curriculum you will have noticed that, according to politicians, academics and journalists, school history teachers do not teach facts. We avoid knowledge as if it were the plague. Dates, names and statistics repulse us. All we do is teach – and critics utter the next word as if it were an obscenity – ‘skills’. We have comme nts to prove it from the Education Secretary Michael Gove, Claire Fox of Radio 4’s The Moral Maze, the best-selling historian Antony Beevor and others.
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