Inside the History Classroom: Portraits of Exemplary Teaching Practice

This insightful text offers vivid, fly-on-the-wall portraits of history teaching in action. Drawing on long-term observations of four teachers working in diverse school contexts, it explores what ＂good＂ history teaching looks like in practice.

Claire Golledge is a lecturer in Education and the co-ordinator of Human Society and its Environment curriculum (secondary) in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to academia, Claire taught History and Legal Studies in NSW secondary schools, and worked in school leadership roles, leading teacher professional learning.