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Teaching controversial issues... where controversial issues really matter
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Teaching History
- Article date:
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June 1, 2007
- Author:
- Barton, Keith; McCully, Alan
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This is the fourth in a series of Teaching History articles about teaching history in Northern Ireland co-authored by Alan McCully. The first two articles (in editions 106 and 114) outlined teaching strategies to help pupils in Northern Ireland understand and relate to complex and often controversial issues from Ireland's past, particularly in relation to the present. The third article (in edition 120) considered the significance and relevance of recent research into history teaching in Northern Ireland from the perspective of both pupils and teachers, proposing a spectrum of how teachers approach controversial issues in the classroom: from risk-taking, to containment to avoidance. It also ...