Teaching and learning

Emela Milne and Victoria Honeybourne are speech, language and communication specialists. In this article, they explore the role of narrative in literacy and in the wider world.

Francis Gilbert lectures in PGCE Secondary English at Goldsmiths, and is a former English teacher, writer and journalist. He explores how writing poetry can inform and enhance students’ experiences of encountering poems for the first time.

Alan Parkinson is a Head of geography and textbook writer. Here he shares his top 20 tips for using technology effectively in the geography classroom.

James Crossland, Senior Lecturer in International History at Liverpool John Moores University, offers a much needed historical perspective on the contemporary problem of fake news, and explores its strategic use in Churchill’s wartime government.

John Foot, Professor of Modern Italian history at the University of Bristol, discusses the return of fascism in contemporary Italian politics, and provides a useful context for students studying its origins and role in WW2.

Dr Kehinde Andrew, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, explores our increasingly uncomfortable relationship with historical figures, such as Colston and Columbus, whose legacy was built on slavery and genocide. He argues that we need to interrogate our complicity in the unjust world they bequeathed to us.