Knowledge vs analysis

We subscribe to the BBC History magazine at the Tower Education Service and over the last few months the editor has been stoking an argument about History teaching in school.  In short, it’s the age-old argument about whether teaching should be about the regurgitation of facts or analysis and understanding.  You can read more about the argument here, but I was also taken by the argument by Dr Sean Lang in the new edition of BBC History who is clearly on the side of the former, but then he would be, he’s a Historian, so he needs to push his own agenda of historic knowledge being top dog in History teaching.

At the Tower we are customer focused and that means our work must support the demands of the national curriculum, but our approach takes from both sides of the argument.  Historic knowledge is a gateway to a wider understanding about how we engage with our past, it informs and allows more critical thinking about the Tower and its history.

Alex at the Tower