Author
Our School Remembers website was developed by Tony Hier, History teacher at Thomas Tallis School. Tony has taught in London comprehensive schools since 1987 and has engaged extensively in thinking about British remembrance culture with the students and communities he has worked with in these schools. Tony is keen that British remembrance culture reflects the contribution of British Empire and colonial people to British conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries so that it reflects the service of otherwise neglected communities in British remembrance commemorations. He has driven and co-ordinated school-wide approaches to British remembrance and engaged community representatives from a diversity of ethnic and faith groups in Greenwich Local Authority..
The website was developed as an Historical Association Teacher Fellowship resource in the aftermath of the centenary celebrations of the end of WW1. It was produced in collaboration with professionals from the HA/HRP/AHRC in November 2019.The suggestions, approaches and resource links are based on the views, recommendations and work of the author and were developed at Thomas Tallis School.
Our School Remembers website was developed by Tony Hier, History teacher at Thomas Tallis School. Tony has taught in London comprehensive schools since 1987 and has engaged extensively in thinking about British remembrance culture with the students and communities he has worked with in these schools. Tony is keen that British remembrance culture reflects the contribution of British Empire and colonial people to British conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries so that it reflects the service of otherwise neglected communities in British remembrance commemorations. He has driven and co-ordinated school-wide approaches to British remembrance and engaged community representatives from a diversity of ethnic and faith groups in Greenwich Local Authority..
The website was developed as an Historical Association Teacher Fellowship resource in the aftermath of the centenary celebrations of the end of WW1. It was produced in collaboration with professionals from the HA/HRP/AHRC in November 2019.The suggestions, approaches and resource links are based on the views, recommendations and work of the author and were developed at Thomas Tallis School.
Vision
Our School Remembers Website aims to give some guidance to schools and colleges who wish to develop and enhance, or even reconsider, their existing approach to Remembrance Day commemorations. During the recent centenary of the First World War, and due to significant participation from the State, Heritage and the Arts, ‘remembrance’ has become endemic in British society and culture. Children, and school students in particular, were engaged by many of these initiatives and continue to be so each year, when many schools mark the 11th of November with special events or assemblies. Whereas there are many resources that provide content and direction for these often as passive recipients of dominant narratives focused on the western front and UK based British soldiers and subjects, this website is unique in considering ‘remembrance’ through the lens of schools’ educational and social needs and values. It aims to explore remembrance through critically engaging the young with the diversity of narratives that academic research reveals. The website addresses the neglect that is often given to the colonial contribution to WW1, WW2 and CW along with that of the neglected stories associated with colonial struggles for Independence and more recent conflicts.
Our School Remembers Website aims to give some guidance to schools and colleges who wish to develop and enhance, or even reconsider, their existing approach to Remembrance Day commemorations. During the recent centenary of the First World War, and due to significant participation from the State, Heritage and the Arts, ‘remembrance’ has become endemic in British society and culture. Children, and school students in particular, were engaged by many of these initiatives and continue to be so each year, when many schools mark the 11th of November with special events or assemblies. Whereas there are many resources that provide content and direction for these often as passive recipients of dominant narratives focused on the western front and UK based British soldiers and subjects, this website is unique in considering ‘remembrance’ through the lens of schools’ educational and social needs and values. It aims to explore remembrance through critically engaging the young with the diversity of narratives that academic research reveals. The website addresses the neglect that is often given to the colonial contribution to WW1, WW2 and CW along with that of the neglected stories associated with colonial struggles for Independence and more recent conflicts.
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