Name: The changing climate: making history relevant
Start: 2024-10-05T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-05T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Black Country Living Museum

The changing climate: making history relevant

Join us at the Black Country Living Museum for a conference of workshops and keynote speakers for history educators.
About this Event

We are delighted to be holding this year’s Midlands History Forum Annual Conference at The Black Country Living Museum. Entrance to the museum and car parking is included in the price of the ticket.

For directions to the museum, click here.

Keynote speakers<h4>Alison Kitson: Teaching history at a time of planetary crisis</h4>

How can history teachers help young people across all age groups understand the environmental crisis and reconnect with the natural world? This keynote will offer insights and practical suggestions, drawing on the work of UCL's Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education and the teachers who are pioneering work in this area.

Dr Alison Kitson is Associate Professor of Education at University College London and Programme Director of UCL's Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education. She has been involved in history education for many years in different roles and is a former Deputy President of the Historical Association.

<h4>Dan Lyndon-Cohen: Disrupting the Narrative: practical ways to decolonise the history classroom</h4>

This main focus will be on practical ways to decolonise the curriculum, focusing on the Tape Letters unit of work that Dan wrote which was based on an oral history archive about the experiences of the British-Pakistani community 1960s-1990s.

Dan Lyndon-Cohen is the Director of the Schools History Project and Lead Practitioner for Humanities at Park View School in Tottenham. He has over 25 years’ experience teaching history in schools across London. He has also published many books and articles.

Workshops

Andrew Wrenn - Teaching Emotive and Controversial History; Britain in Palestine at KS3

Andrew Wrenn and Janice Weathers - From Trinidad to Solihull; Celebrating the contribution of Windrush migrants to local history in the KS2 classroom

Rosalind Morris (Education Manager, National Archives)- Teaching the voices of the Victorian Poor KS2-5

Corey Soper (UCL Centre for Holocaust) - Ethics and challenges of using atrocity images in the classroom

Black Country Living Museum - The Principles of using Primary Sources (for primary and secondary teachers)

Deborah Hayden (Head of History) - TS8 - Extra-curricular activities in History. How to enhance your curriculum without breaking the bank and drowning in paperwork(for primary and secondary teachers)