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The Schools Council Project History 13-16 was set up in 1972 to undertake a radical re-think of the purpose and nature of school history. It sought to revitalize history teaching in schools and to halt the erosion of history’s position in the secondary curriculum.
In 2021, the project brought together a group of teachers to work with us to create lessons around TURNING POINT. You can read more about their experience creating these lesson plans in their blog post here: School History Projects Blog. These lesson packs are available to download now.
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Several threads run through this enquiry:
●Caribbean Black pride
●The way racism permeates every aspect of life in the Caribbean
●The ways in which Caribbeans have stood against racism and discrimination
●The importance of the First World War, the building of the Panama Canal and the UNIA and how they interlink to create a new sense of identity forBlack Caribbeans.
●British attempts to prevent autonomy for Black Caribbean
How this might fit into an existing curriculum:
●As an alternative decolonialisation topic to the partition of India.
●As part of a wider study of decolonialisation
●As part of a 20th Century study of civil rights
●As part of a study on the British Empire
Suggested previous study before this enquiry
Students would benefit from having an overview of the main events of the First World War, and particularly the global nature of the war and fields of battle. If this is not possible before the enquiry teachers may wish to make some elements of this more explicit in this enquiry. Students should already have studied the transatlantic slavery and understand the nature of British slavery in the Caribbean. It would be useful for students to understand the racially based social hierarchy and the nature of the control of the Caribbean by the British Empire. They would also benefit from understanding the reasons for, and nature of, the ending of the slave trade and British slavery in 1833/1838.
Potential future study that would complement this enquiry:
The struggles and achievements of the campaigns for independence in the Caribbean after the 1920s. Black British history after 1920.
You can download the full lesson pack below and explore each lesson.
