Scottish History and the Curriculum for Excellence

1. Curriculum For ExcellenceGood Practice ConferenceScottish History: Opening Up The FutureApex City Quay Hotel, DundeeWednesday 30 September 2009

2. Scottish History and the Curriculum for Excellence Chris Whatley Professor of Scottish History Vice-Principal, University of Dundee

3. CfE: Social Studies’ experiences and outcomes (summary) • Understanding of history, heritage and culture of Scotland – local and national heritage in world context • Broaden understanding of the world – through study of human activities and achievements, past and present • Understanding of values, beliefs and cultures – personal and of others • Understanding principles of democracy and citizenship • Exploration and evaluation of sources/evidence • Location and exploration of linkages, over time, and from local to global • Understanding of enterprise, encouragement of enterprising attitudes

4. Dealing with the Scottish dimension • Aim for learners to have developed an understanding of Scotland’s development, to have an appreciation of their local and national heritage within the global community • Emphasis – for teachers – on collaboration with other ‘learning establishments’ etc • No rigid chronology • Opportunities for revisiting periods and topics • History (people, past events and societies) not to be considered in isolation • Personal context important • Opportunities for inter-disciplinary teaching and learning to be borne in mind

5. Begin local, think global

6. Burns, Alloway, Ayr

7. Robert Burns: memorials and statues

8. Montrose’s Burns: W Birnie Rhind, 1913

9. Burns statue, Dundee • Location: Albert Square, Dundee • Sculptor, Sir John Steell • Unveiled, October 1880