Blowing your own trumpet
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Blowing your own trumpet
Giving your school’s history department a high profile
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The Plot
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Declining numbers and …
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Front of House
Who to?• Grade 9 Pupils• Their Parents• School Management
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The History Evening
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The Main Stage• The classroom environment
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Backstage
Selling History to the Grade 9s using presentations and videosWhat research tells us:
• Career relevance is key, but learners are not particularly attracted by jobs like working in a museum so be careful.
• History role models are a good idea. People who have been very successful in a variety of fields who studied history to an advanced level.
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Other issues to highlight
• The importance of history skills across a wide range of applications and especially for any type of study at a university should be stressed.
• The role of History in forming an informed citizen with a strong sense of context.
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What can the society do?
• Need to keep agitating for improvements to the matric History papers.
• Become a conduit for History best practice
• The Big challenge- A new promotional DVD.
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