Focus on Practice: ‘It Would Have Been Bad’: The Development of Historical Imagination and Empathy in a Group of Secondary Aged Pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties

• DOI: 10.1111/1467-8527.00080
• Publication Date: 2003-03-11T07:33:24Z
• Authors: Andrew Turner
• Keywords: Mainstream

Andrew Turner, who teaches in a school for pupils with severe learning difficulties, considers the teaching of history by teachers such and suggests that skills imaginative reconstruction empathy are relatively neglected areas, particularly when dealing distant historical periods. Recent research mainstream primary illustrates possible parallels article gives details small‐scale study one group Key Stage 3 pupils.