A year-long research project has found that teachers are keen to apply more innovative teaching methods to convey the events of the conflict in their “broader, more complex” sense. However, at the same time, they feel bound by “curriculum stipulations and exam board stipulations”.
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the research has been conducted by academics at the University of Exeter and Northumbria University. It found that with history teaching, the focus on traditional topics, such as such as the causes of the war, soldiers’ experiences, the trenches, and/or the Western Front, is “a result of key stage, curriculum content and exam board specifications, rather than a refusal by teachers to integrate broader and more complex topics into their teaching”.
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