THIPS - Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools
Indigenous American histories are often neglected in teaching, and in public understandings of the past, the University of Sheffield is rectifying this.
The University of Sheffield, the Schools History Project, and the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies at the University of York are delighted to be working with educators, academics, and Indigenous partners on a project aimed at improving the teaching of Indigenous American histories in the UK, empowering teachers to bring Indigenous histories and perspectives into the classroom.
This project seeks to build on recent efforts to diversify and decolonise the history curriculum in schools, challenge Eurocentric narratives, and equip teachers to tackle less-familiar topics. While the importance of histories of migration, especially from South Asia and Africa, have been increasingly recognised, Indigenous American histories are often neglected in teaching, and in public understandings of the past.
Britain has never been a more diverse society, and there has never been more urgency or appetite for diversifying the history curriculum, yet teachers often lack the knowledge, skills and resources to sensitively and confidently handle Indigenous histories in the classroom.
This will become the home for new teaching resources created through the collaborations in this project.
