Today we are launching a truly fantastic new CPD, Understanding the Holocaust at Key Stage 3: Teaching with a research-informed Textbook. The course will explore an innovation in textbook development that the team here at the Centre has created. For the first time it brings together the very latest in research about young people’s understanding […]
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If there are any lessons in the school year that I am determined to get ‘right’ it is those on the Holocaust. However, after just one lesson on the topic this year, lockdown came and our learning was forced online to the Microsoft Teams platform. Teaching about the Holocaust remotely was a challenge, which involved […]
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Today, we are delighted to announce UCL Press Open Access publication of a major new Centre-authored collection, Holocaust Education: Contemporary challenges and controversies. Teaching and learning about the Holocaust is central to school curriculums in many parts of the world. As a field for discourse and a body of practice, it is rich, multidimensional and […]
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What are the challenges in and the challenges of education? Are all challenges opportunities? How do we respond to and how might we pre-empt educational challenges? Our responses to such questions are determined by our personal circumstances and cultural contexts. But at a time when commentators speak of a global ‘gigantic educational crisis’, borne of […]
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Front line teachers and senior leaders are arguably facing greater challenges right now than they encountered at the beginning of the lockdown. Not only are teachers juggling online with face to face teaching but, with just a few weeks left of the term, are undertaking the staggeringly difficult task of accommodating the government’s plan for […]
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Torpoint Community College is a small, semi-rural secondary school in South East Cornwall. As a UCL Quality Mark Beacon School for Holocaust Education, it remains committed to teaching our young people about the Holocaust, developing their knowledge and understanding by using high-quality and stimulating resources, whilst promoting curiosity, questioning and enquiry. It is also has […]
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Staff here at UCL were deeply shocked and saddened at the news that history teacher, James Furlong of The Holt School in Wokingham, was murdered last week. James was known to our Centre as a dedicated teacher keen to develop Holocaust education in his school. His colleagues described him as someone who inspired everyone he […]
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Many of you have, by now, returned to your school and are dealing with the challenges that this complex, phased return brings for you, your students and the school community following the lockdown period. Some of you will have your own children who have not yet returned to school and so you may well be […]
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It is fantastic to see so many of you feeding back to us on the new resources and lesson plans we are offering you during lock-down. Well over 500 extremely positive comments have come through to us and it is very reassuring and uplifting to know that our work is supporting you teach about the […]
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This week, with the events in the US hitting our screens, we are reminded that whilst we battle the deadly Coronavirus another danger – a far more longstanding and rampant one, threatens our world. Racism is a pandemic too which multiplies, mutates, spreads fast, is deep rooted, pervasive and prevalent, everywhere. The news is deeply […]
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