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Teaching Gender Equality through Public Monuments: Using the Monument(al) Challenges Toolkit and Europeana’s Sources to Explore Representation and Memory in the Classroom
If you were to count the statues in your local town, village, or city, how many would you find that represent women? Despite women making up more than half of Europe’s population, most of the statues you’ll come across commemorate the lives and achievements of men. Even when women do appear in public art, they…
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Using Photographs in the History Classroom
Photographs are a valuable way to bring history to life for students. Seeing exact reproductions of faces and places from the past can deepen students’ sense of what life may have been like in times past. This supports what Michael Hill refers to as ‘world building’: students’ ability to develop sufficient contextual knowledge and understanding…