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Overview

Please note: This GCSE History Pilot specification is available to registered pilot centres only. It is not available to centres that are not part of the pilot.

This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of the key features and characteristics of historical periods and the diversity of human experience in the societies studied. The wide range of optinal units provided makes it possible for students to construct a course tailored to their own needs.

Students are able to see and experience the relevance of the subject to a range of occupations, particularly those in the expanding heritage sector. Throughout the course, students will find themselves engaged in relevant and stimulating enquiries.

The course allows students to progress either directly to employment, or to study for an Advanced Level qualification.

Specification aims

The aims of this specification are to encourage students to:

• Understand what history is, why it matters and how it can be studied in different ways.
• Develop a sense of personal identity through engaging with stimulating and controversial issues. This will include identity as citizens of their own communities and the wider world, and a knowledge and understanding of, and respect for, the diversity of human experience, whether cultural, economic, social, political, moral, ethnic or religious.
• Work actively through the process of historical enquiry, using a wide range of sources (including film, paintings, photographs, artefacts, the built environment, written accounts, literature and the Internet), critically and in context.
• comprehend, analyse and evaluate how the past has been interpreted and represented in different ways, in writing, in film and TV and through heritage sector bodies such as museums (open-air and conventional), historical theme parks, galleries and sites.
• Become aware of the important role history plays in many vocational areas, especially the heritage industry, and develop the skills to participate in these areas. This will be done through the study of how the heritage industry works and/or taking part in tasks which develop these skills: asking questions, planning research, working in groups, sustaining an enquiry, ICT skills, reviewing progress and communicating results appropriately to different audiences and for different purposes.