Decolonising the History Curriculum
Euro-centrism and Primary Schooling
Authors: Moncrieffe, Marlon Lee
Free Preview- Calls for the decolonisation of the Key stage 2 national history curriculum
- Centres the author’s Black-British identity by exploring narrative and biographical methodologies
- Illuminates the potential for transformative change for minority-ethnic children who are often marginalised by the national curriculum
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- About this book
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This book calls for a reconceptualisation and decolonisation of the Key Stage 2 national history curriculum. The author applies a range of theories in his research with White-British primary school teachers to show how decolonising the history curriculum can generate new knowledge for all, in the face of imposed Eurocentric starting points for teaching and learning in history, and dominant white-cultural attitudes in primary school education. Through both narrative and biographical methodologies, the author presents how teaching and learning Black-British history in schools can be achieved, and centres his Black-British identity and minority-ethnic group experience alongside the immigrant Black-Jamaican perspective of his mother to support a framework of critical thinking of curriculum decolonisation. This book illustrates the potential of transformative thinking and action that can be employed as social justice for minority-ethnic group children who are marginalized in their educational development and learning by the dominant discourses of British history, national building and national identity.
- About the authors
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Marlon Lee Moncrieffe is Doctor of Education at the School of Education, University of Brighton, UK. He has worked in Primary School Education and Higher Education for over twenty years. His academic research focuses on 20th century Black-British lives, experiences, and histories for advancing teaching, learning and education for all.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-12
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‘Epistemic Violence’ in the History Curriculum
Pages 13-23
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White Trainee-Teachers Reproduce Eurocentric and White-British Histories
Pages 25-45
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Orienting with Historical Consciousness
Pages 47-56
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Centring the Black Experience in Key Stage 2 Primary School British History
Pages 57-75
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Decolonising the History Curriculum
- Book Subtitle
- Euro-centrism and Primary Schooling
- Authors
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- Marlon Lee Moncrieffe
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-57945-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-57945-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-57944-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 94
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
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