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History Education Research Journal @histedresearch.bsky.social · 24d

In this paper a study was conducted to identify curricular goals for colligation in students’ causal arguments. The study finds that students were capable constructing their own causal colligation, appreciating the disciplinary framework that underpinned those constructions:

doi.org/10.14324/HER...

Characterising curricular goals for colligations in students’ causal arguments

In the ‘historical thinking’ tradition of curriculum design, the philosopher of history W.H. Walsh’s concept of colligation has mostly been adopted to enable students to construct coherent, powerful a...

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Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 24d

New open access article! Racist epithets in the classroom: Unpacking attitudes to the N-word in teaching English

TLDR: White students and teachers should not say/ read the n-word aloud

(But please do click on the link anyway!)

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Racist epithets in the classroom: Unpacking attitudes to the N‐word in teaching English

Since 2020, there has been a growing discussion around the representation of Black lives in the curriculum, and their representation in the classroom. There is a need to examine the ways in which tex...

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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · Aug 7

***NEW***

My new (free!) article in the History Education Research Journal exploring what ‘colligation’ is and how it might help teachers develop students’ causal arguments.

Based on a case study with one of my Y13 classes.

journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article...

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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · Aug 7

***NEW***

My new (free!) article in the History Education Research Journal exploring what ‘colligation’ is and how it might help teachers develop students’ causal arguments.

Based on a case study with one of my Y13 classes.

journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article...

journals.uclpress.co.uk

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Paula Lobo (Worth) @paulalobo.bsky.social · Jul 13

Really honoured to be a part of this. Well done editorial team!

Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · Jul 12

An honour to finally be able to stand up and launch The Practical Guide to Teaching History to the history teaching community at #SHP25! Thank you to @joshpreyegarry.bsky.social and @mrmayhew.bsky.social Thank you to Matt Stanford and @corinnegoullee.bsky.social for getting us to this place

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corinnegoullee.bsky.social @corinnegoullee.bsky.social · Jul 14

It was such a privilege to help edit this book- I learnt something from each chapter about what it means to teach history and do it well.

Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · Jul 12

An honour to finally be able to stand up and launch The Practical Guide to Teaching History to the history teaching community at #SHP25! Thank you to @joshpreyegarry.bsky.social and @mrmayhew.bsky.social Thank you to Matt Stanford and @corinnegoullee.bsky.social for getting us to this place

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · Jul 12

An honour to finally be able to stand up and launch The Practical Guide to Teaching History to the history teaching community at #SHP25! Thank you to @joshpreyegarry.bsky.social and @mrmayhew.bsky.social Thank you to Matt Stanford and @corinnegoullee.bsky.social for getting us to this place

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · Jul 16

And even if you weren't able to join @alistairdickins.bsky.social you should still check out these resources, they are phenomenal. On a par with the work of @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social and that's saying something!

Alistair Dickins @alistairdickins.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thanks to everyone who joined our workshop at @1972shp.bsky.social Conference 2025!

If you'd like to find resources, here are the PPT and documents for our presentation: docs.google.com/presentation...

Special thanks to @danlyndon.bsky.social and @apf102.bsky.social for having us on the programme!

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Alistair Dickins @alistairdickins.bsky.social · Jul 16

Huge thanks to @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for a wonderful @1972shp.bsky.social workshop on storytelling at KS5!

Following an earlier blog on @arthurjchapman.bsky.social workshop, here are some (incomplete) thoughts stimulated by Claire Holliss' session.

istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

Responding to SHP 2025: Part 2, Claire Holliss on Stories at A-Level

The 2025 Schools History Project (SHP) conference was, as ever, a highlight of the teaching year and a stimulus for all sorts of thoughts. ...

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Colin McCormick @colinmccormick.bsky.social · Jul 10

Tom Allen masterpiece. Watch his @histassoc.bsky.social session before it expires if you can

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · Jul 12

Claire Hollis reflecting on the effectiveness of story telling with her A Level students: the answer, much deeper planning on how to get a viable and sustained response

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · Jul 12

Settling down 2 hear the stellar @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social reflect on & explore the affordances & constraints of narrative @ A Level. Do stories bias towards the individual not the general? How can we tell stories about those who leaves few archival traces? Does story bias to the dramatic? #SHP25

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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · Jun 9

Glad you enjoyed it! I wrote about WR potentially hindering historical specificity on Twitter (before Musk took over) here.

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Jim Carroll on X: "THREAD on 'The Writing Revolution' (TWR) and its applicability when teaching students to write in history. (I hope to write a blog/article on this topic later when I have more time but here are some of my initial, undeveloped thoughts). 1/14" / X

THREAD on 'The Writing Revolution' (TWR) and its applicability when teaching students to write in history. (I hope to write a blog/article on this topic later when I have more time but here are some of my initial, undeveloped thoughts). 1/14

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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · Jun 9

Looks great Alistair!

If you haven’t read it already you might also be interested in this blogpost (when I used to blog 😂). In it, I wrote about the potential pitfalls of students relying on conjunctions instead of verbs, nouns and prepositional phrases.

jcarrollhistory.com/2017/12/01/d...

Don’t you think we deserve an explanation? The limits of generic ‘explaining’ writing frames for constructing historical causal arguments

In a previous post, I argued against ‘sentence starters’ such as ‘I believe…’ being labelled as the ‘language of the historian’.[i] I now want to consider another manifestation o…

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Alistair Dickins @alistairdickins.bsky.social · Jun 9

I've spent years encouraging students to use causal verbs alongside conjunctions. But this can lead to confused language/mixed metaphors.

Inspired by @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social, I'm planning to explicitly integrate metaphors into KS5 using targeted vocab

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#historyteacher #historyeducation

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Jess Angell @jessangell.bsky.social · May 23

🚨Teacher of History Job Vacancy🚨 at Maiden Erlegh School in Reading. Lovely team & supportive HOD at this school which is part of ⁦the Maiden Erlegh Trust!
Brilliant work being done here 👏
#History #Historyteacher #TeachingJobs

mynewterm.com/jobs/141886/...

Teacher of History - Maiden Erlegh School In Reading, Reading, Berkshire

Closing date: Midnight, Sun 15th Jun, 2025. View full details and apply online at MyNewTerm.

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Gemma H @gemmamh.bsky.social · May 10

Thank you @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for an excellent session on LGBT history at A Level. I have followed Claire’s speaking and writing for a while and delighted to finally hear her live! So knowledgeable 🤩

#HAConf25

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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thinking about your teaching of the History A-level? I will be running a series of webinars with @histassoc.bsky.social between the 12th June and the 3rd July! Details are included in the link below, but feel free to ask me any questions about the course.
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level

www.history.org.uk

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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · Apr 23

Dr Katharine Burn and Professor Trevor Mutton have been awarded the @beranews.bsky.social Research Intelligence Article of the Year Award 2024, for their article, "Understanding research & research approaches appropriate for teacher education settings". Congratulations! 🎉

Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4jOImvB

Dr Katharine Burn and Professor Trevor Mutton next to an issue of BERA's Research Intelligence journal

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · Apr 9

Today is publication day for a Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School. 19 years after the first edition, this is a complete re-write by so many wonderful experts in the history teaching community. Thanks to @terryhaydn.bsky.social for offering the opportunity 5 years ago!

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · Apr 9

@jcarrollhistory.bsky.social says "historical writing is hard!" Well he makes it look easy as he draws on his years of experience in this area of history teaching to provide a tour-de-force of how to teach extended writing in history.

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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · Apr 4

V. excited for the new edition of ‘A Practical Guide to Teaching History in Secondary Schools’. Thanks to the amazing editors @dankeates.bsky.social, Matt Stanford and Corrine Goullee for inviting me to contribute.

So many fantastic authors and it includes a beautiful tribute to Helen Snelson. 1/3

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · Apr 5

Very, very highly recommend this book. Really superb chapters, steeped in a deep grasp of the debates and advances of history teachers in recent decades. Well written and beautifully edited.

Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · Apr 4

V. excited for the new edition of ‘A Practical Guide to Teaching History in Secondary Schools’. Thanks to the amazing editors @dankeates.bsky.social, Matt Stanford and Corrine Goullee for inviting me to contribute.

So many fantastic authors and it includes a beautiful tribute to Helen Snelson. 1/3

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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · Apr 4

Among others, it draws on the work of:

@counsellc.bsky.social
@michaelfordham.bsky.social
@paulalobo.bsky.social
@docrmills.bsky.social
@katemhammond.bsky.social
James Woodcock
Rachel Foster

www.routledge.com/A-Practical-...

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A Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School

A Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School offers comprehensive advice, inspiration and a wide range of tried and tested approaches to help you find success in the secondary history...

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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · Apr 4

My chapter explores the accumulated wisdom of history teachers about extended writing, particularly how they enable and motivate all students to construct their own arguments in extended prose.

Practical examples range from a focus on vocabulary to paragraph cohesion. 2/3

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