Disruptive Histories
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About
About
Welcome to SOAS’s 'Disruptive Histories’ learning resource page. This page contains a range of resources to support schools and teachers who want to develop and deliver more inclusive approaches to history teaching.
Created by SOAS students, the resources encourage us to rethink Eurocentric narratives of the past that shape widespread understandings of history, but also a wide range of subjects, including politics, language learning, music and citizenship. Through creative pedagogies and learning materials, they are designed to ‘disrupt’ dominant paradigms and push us to rethink many ideas and subjects we take for granted. Most of the resources have been designed with Key Stage 3 learning in mind, though they can be adjusted for other year groups.
How these resources have been made and how to use them
Students have created these resources with support from Dr Eleanor Newbigin and Sarah Tucker, of the Access Participation and Student Success Team at SOAS. They have been adapted from assignments undergraduate and postgraduate students produced as part of Colonial Curricula, a module that looks at the history of empire and education through a focus on the history of SOAS itself. The resources have been developed through conversations that consider what academic learning can look like if we understand European histories and academic conventions as one of many ways of thinking about the past and producing knowledge.
Our student resource-producers have been guided by Francesca Ainslie, Chris Demasi and Hamidah Siddiqua, qualified secondary school teachers studying for their MA History at SOAS, to ensure their resources are as user friendly for teachers as possible.
Below you will find nine folders, each of which contain a discrete set of learning resources, focusing on different case studies, historical events and themes that have been selected by the student resource creators. In each folder you will also find a guidance sheet that provides an overview of the material, the subjects and student age group for which it is most appropriate, an outline of the purpose of the lesson and any tips or prompts about what you may need to do in preparation for teaching it, including potential additional reading.
Learning resources
Credits
The resources have been created by:
Damayanti Bose; Chris Demasi; Catherine Felismino; Hiba Ul-Hasan; Claudia Huang; Abdullah Essa Omar Bin Jalil; Rahmat Ottun; Benjamin Plafker; Sam Yee Pun; Hamidah Siddiqua; Aina Yasue
With the assistance of
Francesca Ainslie is a qualified history teacher and is completing the MA History programme at SOAS. She is interested in work that encourages regular questioning and self-reflection amongst teachers and students from which curriculum choices can become more purposeful and participatory.
Chris Demasi is a qualified teacher and is completing the two-year History with Intensive Japanese MA programme at SOAS. He is interested in supporting students to become independent learners and to think critically about historic narratives.
Hamidah Siddiqua is a qualified teacher and is completing the MA History programme at SOAS. She is very passionate about creating a more inclusive History curriculum, one that challenges young people's assumptions about histories they are familiar with and those which they are not.
Publication details
The resources are published under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 – Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 international Licence.
All information on the site is provided in good faith and endeavour made to ensure that images are copyright free or covered by Creative Commons licence, with creators attributed in full. Images have been used under the fair use doctrine for educational, non-commercial purposes. The project team agree to take down any images or data where a copyright infringement is demonstrated.
Image credit: Sean Pollock for Hackney Council – Thomas J Price – Warm Shores unveiling.
