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Living History
LIVING HISTORY is about people and how they lived, how they related to one another, how they conducted themselves and their affairs.
Learning Through Action's interactive learning methods enable children to experience what living was like for people in past times, to identify with their counterparts, whether 60+ years ago in the context of World War Two, or 6,000 years ago in the time of Ancient Egypt.
Through a better understanding of history we learn to understand ourselves and our times. As in all our work, the aim in these projects – which children enjoy and remember – is to circumvent any alienation and to seek to involve everyone in a group, as well as imparting salient facts in a meaningful context. The content is designed to stimulate thinking and imagination, and to air parallels between past events and contemporary issues.
Our Living History Lesson Support Projects are delivered by highly experienced professional facilitators. They are carefully researched and prepared and are fully resourced interactive learning projects, structured on similar lines to LTA's social behaviour, health and citizenship focused interactive workshops.
An alternative active learning strategy:Students themselves research a defined topic, preparing an interactive scenario to present to their peers and perhaps younger students, in which they will be open to questioning on fact and interpretation.
LTA offers INSET training workshops and guidance focusing on this strategy. A number of International Schools have widely adopted this approach, following LTA introductory courses: it is very effective in terms of learning and student involvement and personal development. LTA INSET courses are 'tailor-made' to schools' requirements.