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Article: Are history lessons in Scottish schools a thing of the past? High drama: Clemence Poesy as Mary, Queen of Scots in the BBC production Gunpowder, Treason and Plot Over the top: The Somme, 1916.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 3, 2008
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Byline: Graham Grant
TRADITIONAL history lessons are in danger of vanishing from Scotland's school timetables, teachers warned yesterday.
Their fears come amid growing concerns that the subject is increasingly being sidelined to make way for 'trendier' alternatives in a bid to 're-engage' bored pupils.
Some schools have already downgraded history to merely one element of a combined 'social subjects' class taught by a single teacher - while others have dropped it altogether.
Yesterday, the Scottish Association of Teachers of History (SATH) said the SNP was in danger of presiding over the end of the subject in its traditional form.
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