Ethics in the Classroom Setting

by royalhistsoc | 07 Dec 2020 | Teaching Portal: For Teachers

History is about opinion, judgement and (often) getting beyond monolithic assumptions about ‘right’ or ‘wrong’.  At the same time, the classroom should be a safe and ethical place for the exchange of views and a space that is marked by respect, sensitivity and...

Teaching Materials for Low-Tech Online Teaching: Planning for Social Distancing

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

In this guest post, the first of two looking at low-tech materials for online teaching, Dr Mary Morrissey, Associate Professor in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Reading, offers advice to teachers about the different teaching materials to use to...

Small Group Teaching in a Large Class: ‘Understanding History’

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

In this post Dr Marcus Collins, Senior Lecturer in Cultural History at the University of Loughborough, shares his knowledge and experience of teaching the course ‘Understanding History’, a compulsory module for second-year undergraduates which aims to...

Teaching with BME Students

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

The cohort of students who study History at SOAS is one of the most diverse in the UK but the findings of the RHS’s Race and Equality Report have been highly pertinent to departmental discussions about inclusive pedagogy. Dr Eleanor Newbigin, Senior Lecturer in the...

Teaching Black and South Asian British Histories

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

In the current political juncture, we are witnessing wide-ranging calls to decolonise the curriculum. Many are now campaigning to ensure that history teaching within the UK incorporates histories of British imperialism and, more specifically, Black British History....