BBC News - Draft history curriculum 'list-like and too narrow'
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They warn that, as it stands, the new curriculum may alienate pupils from ethnic and religious minorities.
"It largely fails to acknowledge that Britain's diverse population is the product of our rich and diverse history and so it threatens to alienate the 17% black and minority ethnic population of English schools."
The authors say the curriculum needs to include the Muslim contribution to world history in order "to counter the types of historical narrative that are available on the internet" which encourage radicalisation among young Muslims and anti-Muslim prejudice among young white Britons.
They describe the draft as "un-British" in that, even at moments of national crisis and retrenchment, during for example two world wars, "governments always understood the need to keep the tradition of world history alive in schools and to have an emphasis on British history in the context of the world".
"It largely fails to acknowledge that Britain's diverse population is the product of our rich and diverse history and so it threatens to alienate the 17% black and minority ethnic population of English schools."
The authors say the curriculum needs to include the Muslim contribution to world history in order "to counter the types of historical narrative that are available on the internet" which encourage radicalisation among young Muslims and anti-Muslim prejudice among young white Britons.
They describe the draft as "un-British" in that, even at moments of national crisis and retrenchment, during for example two world wars, "governments always understood the need to keep the tradition of world history alive in schools and to have an emphasis on British history in the context of the world".
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