History and Controversy in the Classroom

John Slater looks at the school curriculum and politically sensitive debates.

There is much publicly expressed anxiety, sometimes downright hostility, when schools concern themselves with issues that are currently controversial and sometimes politically sensitive. It is part of a wider public debate which quite properly demands that the school curriculum explains and justifies itself. What is the contribution of history to this debate?

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