Module EDUM046 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
EDUM046: Secondary History Subject Knowledge and Pedagogy
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The module introduces students to current thinking in the teaching of History and develops students’ pedagogic and academic subject knowledge in the field of history education. Key elements of the module include:
- History Lecture Programme: lectures to cover the theoretical basis of history education.
- National Curriculum History Course: a series of lectures, seminars and workshops which address the requirements and opportunities of the English National Curriculum in History.
- Teaching History Seminars: practical classes which are designed to develop your understanding of teaching History at Key Stages 4 and 5, the place of history within the wider curriculum, progression and assessment in History and differentiation and personalised learning.
- Peer Teaching: sessions in which students use the University of Exeter model of initial teacher education to develop their subject and curriculum knowledge and their skills of reflective practice.
- Seminar Days: Five days when students return to the university to share school-based work experiences and develop the links between theoretical and practical aspects of teaching history.
On the Secondary PGCE, you will learn and reflect on the skills and knowledge required by the programme’s credit-bearing and non-credit bearing modules throughout the year. You will need to think about the modules in relation to each other. To facilitate this, the learning and teaching activities and guided independent study described below are scheduled to occur across all three terms both in the context of your university taught course and in the context of your 24 weeks of applied professional experience in schools.
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 103 | 197 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 72 | Lectures, seminars and workshops: The theoretical basis of teaching history; The National Curriculum; Teaching History |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 18 | Peer Teaching sessions |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 18 | Seminar Days |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 10 | Tutorials with academic tutor |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 3 | Tutorials with academic tutor |
| Guided Independent Study | 179 | Independent Study |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Barton, Keith & Levstik, Linda (2004) Teaching History for the Common Good, Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum
Bourdillon, Hilary (ed) (1999) Teaching History, London: Routledge
Cannadine, David, Keating, Jenny, Sheldon, Nicola (2011) The Right Kind ofHistory, Palgrave
Counsell, Christine (1997) Analytic and Discursive Writing, Historical Association –(1997) Planning the C20 World, Historical Association [downloadable from HA website at www.history.org.uk by HA members]
Davies, Ian (2010) Debates in History Teaching, London: Routledge
Haydn, Terry et al. (2008) Learning to Teach History in the Secondary School, London: Routledge
Historical Association: Teaching History– journal for the teaching of history in secondary education
Historical Association (2007) Teaching Emotive and Controversial History 3-19, downloadable from http://www.history.org.uk/resources/secondary_resource_780_32.html
Husbands, Chris, Kitson, Alison & Pendry, Anna, (2003) Understanding History Teaching, Open University Press
Kitson, Alison, Husbands, Chris (2011) Teaching and Learning History 11-18, Open University Press
Ofsted (2011) History for all report downloadable from www.ofsted.gov.uk/publications/090223
Oftsed (2012) History survey visits supplementary subject-specific guidance downloadable from www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources
Phillips, Robert (1998) History Teaching, Nationhood and the State, Cassell
Phillips, Robert (2002) Reflective Teaching of History 11-18, London: Continuum
Web based and electronic resources: see PGCE History page on ELE (http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/
