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SUMMARY:Towards a responsible and dIsciplinary education in contrasting so
 cio-political contexts: history-led curriculum change in England and Leban
 on - Christine Counsell and Michael Fordham\, University of Cambridge\, Fa
 culty of Education
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:Using contrasting contexts of England and a post-conflict zone
  in the Middle East\, this seminar will examine the history curriculum as 
 an artefact being developed by communities of history teachers\, in both s
 ettings\, considering each in the light of Young’s ‘Future 3’.  In E
 ngland – we see history teachers continuing to renew a second-order know
 ledge tradition (discipline-derived notions of historical criticality) whi
 le increasingly arguing that this needs to be underpinned with stronger an
 d more explicit emphases on the substantive (propositional historical know
 ledge).  Among Lebanese teacher educators\, scholars and teachers\, we see
  interest in England’s second-order tradition as a way of enabling class
 room history conversation in a setting where any proposition about the pas
 t is contentious and where\, after violent civil conflict\, Lebanese polic
 y-makers still seek social cohesion through ‘unifying’\, mono-narrativ
 es. England’s history teachers’ distinctive blend of substantive knowl
 edge with a discipline-derived criticality aligns strongly with aspects of
  Young’s ‘Future 3’. How are English history teachers’ traditions 
 and recent scholarship being used in Lebanon? How does this differ from ap
 proaches such as ‘multi-perspectivity’ more common in other post-confl
 ict zones? Why\, and to whom\, is a ‘Future 3’ history curriculum now 
 attractive in Lebanon and what are its chances? What is the nature and pot
 ential of history teacher curriculum leadership in both settings? And what
  issues of power are at stake and in play? 
LOCATION:Room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education (Room 1S
 7)\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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