{"id":20898,"date":"2018-05-18T13:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=20898"},"modified":"2018-10-29T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:01:11","slug":"teach-more-welsh-history-in-schools-says-leading-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/teach-more-welsh-history-in-schools-says-leading-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach more Welsh history in schools, says leading historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of Wales\u2019s most prominent historians has called for more Welsh history within the national curriculum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Elin Jones, who headed the Welsh Government&#8217;s history advisory group, told the Senedd Petitions Committee there was &#8220;a general feeling amongst people that not enough Welsh history is being taught.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The WJEC&#8217;s new GCSE history syllabus contains more Welsh history than its predecessor, but Welsh history modules remain optional at AS and A-level.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jones said many of her group&#8217;s recommendations to then Education Secretary Leighton Andrews in 2012 had subsequently been ignored in the 2015 Donaldson Report, which considered what changes could be made to the Welsh national curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel that Donaldson doesn&#8217;t provide the guidance on how you integrate the local element and the Welsh element into the humanities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you read part of the report, there is no guidance on history at all, and that is a great deficiency,&#8221; reflected Dr Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jones\u2019s co-petitioner was Aberystwyth University student Elfed Wyn Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wyn Jones said topics such as Nazi Germany and Depression-era America are prioritised over studying Welsh history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are only three years since I finished A-levels, and the closest I came to the history of Wales was the Monmouth revolt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to look at the history of Wales far before Llywelyn&#8217;s history, and we need to develop a curriculum that looks at the history of Wales as a country and its relationship with Britain, Europe and the world,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>A Welsh Government spokesperson said: &#8220;Professor Donaldson was absolutely clear that a Welsh dimension should be included in each area of learning and experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will now set about creating a curriculum for Wales, which will be designed in Wales, by Wales.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Wales\u2019s most prominent historians has called for more Welsh history within the national curriculum. Dr Elin Jones, who headed the Welsh Government&#8217;s history advisory group, told the Senedd Petitions Committee there was &#8220;a general feeling amongst people that not enough Welsh history is being taught.&#8221; The WJEC&#8217;s new GCSE history syllabus contains more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[744],"tags":[1559,1558,1560,739,112,1557],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20898"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20983,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898\/revisions\/20983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}