Teaching the 'Non-Examinable' Estella Lewis's Contribution to Post-War History Education in the UK

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  • Author(s): Edwards, Christopher
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education. 2022 58(4):526-540.
  • Publication Date:
    2022
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Descriptive
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      15
    • Education Level:
      Secondary Education
    • Subject Terms:
      Teaching Methods; War; Foreign Countries; Teaching Guides; History Instruction; Secondary School Students; Educational Objectives; Memory; Communities of Practice; Teacher Attitudes
    • Subject Terms:
      United Kingdom
    • Accession Number:
      10.1080/00309230.2020.1856151
    • ISSN:
      0030-9230
      1477-674X
    • Abstract:
      Estella Lewis's handbook for teachers, "Teaching History in Secondary Schools," published in 1960, is examined to reflect upon the teaching of history in the UK during the postwar period, a text that addresses the "problem" of teaching history to "non-academic" children attending secondary modern schools. Lewis's ideas, attitudes, and values towards this question are explored fully in order to show her contesting history education aims, content, and methods. Her work as a history educator, alongside other authors, is significant in the way it sheds light on the largely unexamined discourse on how history teaching in postwar secondary modern schools was conceptualised. Generally presented as deserted and unchanging, the landscape of postwar history education that appears in Lewis's text is a social practice bustling with activity.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2023
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1366052