298 pages
250 x 168mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 025 X
ISBN-13: 978 185856 025 0
Published 1996

Few primary teachers are specialists in History yet they have to cope with the demands of the post-Dearing History Curriculum. Hilary Claire has a degree in History, has taught in primary schools and now teaches the History elective and History education at South Bank University.
Her knowledge and experience radiate through this book, which will help teachers to come to grips with the issues and the prescribed periods for study in the History national curriculum Key Stage I and 2 and ensure that pupils are presented a curriculum that does not exclude or marginalise women or certain groups of people.

Reclaiming our Pasts guides teachers through the British Core Units and each Extension Study category, while exploring possibilities for extending children's perspectives on the past and the present. It shows how stories, topics and the lives of famous people can set pupils on an inclusive and intellectually rigorous study of history.

The author's original research into historical events and figures makes this book itself an invaluable resource, and she also provides a substantial resource section containing accounts of the lives of people relevant to key stage I and 2 History plus annotated book lists of relevant historical fiction and non-fiction for juniors.

This book is for curriculum planners and for trainers and mentors of primary teachers. Above all, it is a handbook that no primary teacher of History will want to be without.