Histoire/récit/roman national, mais pour les enfants anglais [nov 2016]

Pour prendre du recul sur l'enseignement de l'histoire jusqu'au brevet, on peut se placer de l'autre coté de la Manche.

Les classes (Year) sont regroupées en 4 étapes clefs (Key Stage) : 

• Key Stage 1,    Year   1-2,        5  à   7 ans
• Key Stage 2,    Year   3-6,        7  à 11 ans
• Key Stage 3,    Year   7-9,       11 à 14 ans
• Key Stage 4,    Year 10-11,     14 à 16 ans

Le curriculum en cours a été défini en 2013.
Leur suivi est obligatoire ("These are the statutory programmes of study and attainment targets for history at key stages 1 to 3. They are issued by law; you must follow them unless there’s a good reason not to. All local-authority-maintained schools should teach them").

Voici le lien vers le  National curriculum in England: history programmes of study des Key Stage1, Key Stage 2 et Key Stage 3.

Voici quelques extraits
Key Stage 2
Les périodes

• changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
•  the Roman Empire and its impact on Brit ain 
• Britain ’s settlement by Anglo- Saxons and Scots
• The Viking and Anglo- Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor

Exemples de cas d'études

• Julius Caesar’s attempted invasion in 55 - 54 BC 
• the Roman Empire by AD 42 and the power of its army 
• successful invasion by Claudius and conquest, including Hadrian’s Wall 
• British resistance, for example, Boudica 
• ‘Romanisation’ of Britain: sites such as Caerwent and the impact of technology, culture and beliefs, including early Christianity 

Key Stage 3
Les périodes

• the development of Church, state and society in Medieval Britain 1066- 1509
• the development of Church, state and society in Britain 1509- 1745 
• ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745 -1901 
• challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day

Exemples de cas d'étude

• Renaissance and Reformation in Europe 
• the English Reformation and Counter Reformation (Henry VIII to Mary I) 
• the Elizabethan religious settlement and conflict with Catholics (including Scotland, Spain and Ireland) 
• the first colony in America and first contact with India 
• the causes and events of the civil wars throughout Britain
• the Interregnum (including Cromwell in Ireland) 
• the Restoration, ‘Glorious Revolution’ and power of Parliament
•  the Act of Union of 1707, 
• the Hanoverian succession and the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745