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CONTESTED HISTORIES
Alison Kitson, Lecturer in History Education and Teacher Development at the University of Warwick is the author of 'History Teaching and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland'.
Libby Purves talks to Alison Kitson about her research which looks at history teaching within the school system in Northern Ireland. They are joined by Chris Culpin, Director of the Schools History Project to discuss the teaching of contemporary and contested histories.
NATIONAL TRUST - BACK TO BACKS
One of the most recent acquisitions of the National Trust is Court 15 in Birmingham, a series of eleven back to back houses, dating from the early years of the nineteenth Century. In a new initiative the National Trust has linked up with a local Further Education college which provides accredited training for the Back to Backs tour guides. Stephen Perry visits Court 15 with a group of pupils from St George's Primary School in Birmingham and finds out how it is being used for education.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
Libby Purves is joined by Jenny Tasker a sixth form student at King Edward 6th Handworth School to hear what motivated her to learn tour guiding and examines how vocational education can be useful for both academic and more practically minded students when she talks to Jacqui Thibault, manager of Colleges for Schools at Tresham Institute of Further and Higher Education about their new vocational programme.
TRAVELLERS' EDUCATION
It is estimated that there are 100,000 Travellers in the United Kingdom. Many of the traveller school-age children are not registered at a school while the average school attendance for traveller pupils is seventy five per cent, well below the national average and the lowest of any ethnic minority group.
Libby Purves discusses the serious educational under achievement of Travellers with Trish McDonald, senior advisor at West Midlands Education Service for Travellers and hears the experience of Caroline Watton, a fifteen years old the Traveller Community.
Additional information:
History Teaching and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland
by Alison Kitson,
Lecturer in History Education and Teacher Development University of Warwick, Coventry
Alison Kitson's study is part of a project - History Teaching and the Politics of Social Reconciliation - funded by the Carnegie Council of Ethics and International Affairs exploring history education around the world
Chris Culpin, Director of the Schools History Project
Their Past Your Future
Back To Backs
National Trust
Tresham Institute of Further and Higher Education
Travellers' Children Service
West Midlands Education Service for Travelling Children, The Graiseley Centre, Pool Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Denied a Future?: The Right to Education of Roma/gypsy and Traveller Children
Publisher: Save the Children
ISBN 1841870587
The Education of Gypsy and Traveller Children
Pat Holmes and Christine O'Hanlon
Publisher: Trentham Books
ISBN 1858562694
Gypsy Traveller Students in Secondary Schools: Culture, Identity and Achievement
Chris Derrington and Sally Kendall
Publisher: Trentham Books
ISBN 1858563208
Traveller Education: changing times, changing technologies
Ken Marks
Publisher: Trentham Books
ISBN 1858563518
National Association of Teachers of Travellers (Natt)
Working Towards Inclusive Education: aspects of good practice for Gypsy Traveller pupils
Research Brief 238 Department for Education and Skills (DfES) November 2000.
Provision and Support for Traveller Pupils 2003
Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted)
National Literacy Trust
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