Effecting Change 2: Education and Public History

Module overview

These modules will focus upon the development of highly transferable practical skills relevant to specific sectors through which change can be affected. In this module we will explore how public history (e.g. exhibitions, magazines, documentaries, entertainment) and education (e.g. curriculum development, classroom resources) can address contemporary global and local challenges and effect change within society. The module’s Communication Workshops will focus upon the development of two specific outputs: public exhibitions and classroom lesson plans. Digital Humanities workshops will develop skills in the production of video essays and podcasts to enhance the impact of these outputs.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

apply your developed knowledge, structuring your ideas and research findings into well-ordered assignments.
engage with historiography and theoretical frameworks, contributing to the debates relating to effecting change through education and public history and its relationship to the wider world.
undertake a thorough critical analysis and assessment of a variety of textual, visual and material culture sources.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

effecting change through education and public history, in particular the ways in which history and the humanities can be leveraged to effect change.
a wide variety of secondary source material relating to effecting change through education and public history, including theoretical frameworks used in the field.
a wide variety of primary sources relating to effecting change through education and public history.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

utilise and develop your time-management skills.
research complex historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in assignments.
use to good effect textual, visual and material culture sources, synthesising this material to develop cogent and persuasive arguments.

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include seminars and workshops. Learning methods include skills-based workshops and discussion of key themes and ideas.

Study time
Type	Hours
Workshops	24
Completion of assessment task	100
Seminar	24
Wider reading or practice	52
Preparation for scheduled sessions	100
Total study time	300

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Peter Serdyukov, Mark Ryan (2007). Writing Effective Lesson Plans: The 5-Star Approach. Pearson.

Joanna McIntyre, Fran Abrams (2020). Refugee Education: Theorising Practice in Schools. Routledge.

Steve Slack (2020). Interpreting Heritage: A Guide to Planning and Practice, Routledge Guide to Practice in Museums, Galleries and Heritage. Routledge.

Nina Simon (2010). The Participatory Museum. Museum 2.0.

Jessica Abel (2015). Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio. Random House.

Assessment

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Written assignment	50%
Written assignment	50%

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Resubmit assessments	100%

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Written assignment	50%
Written assignment	50%