Post by ctrevatt on May 18, 2015 12:33:49 GMT 1
Hello
My name is Clare and I am a History Subject Specialist for a UK exam board called OCR. We are currently developing new GCSEs, qualifications taken by 16 year-olds in the UK, and I wanted to let you know that we have a new unit in our ‘Explaining the Modern World’ History GCSE called ‘Poland 1956-1990: The People and the State’.
This will be an optional depth study and we hope very much that UK students and teachers will be very interested in this period of Poland’s history.
In studying this unit, learners will need to be familiar with key political, social and economic developments in Poland from 1956-1990, but the primary focus of the depth study will be on how these events and developments affected different groups within the state. Learners will be required to study the following issues:
- the policies of the state, including their aims and implementation;
- the impact of the state on different groups throughout the period, including different social classes, women, young people, religious and ethnic groups;
- the reasons for, and extent of, support and/or opposition to the state from different groups throughout the period; and
- the ways in which source material from the time can be used to investigate the challenges above, and the challenges presented by the use of primary source material.
For full details of the course, please look at our specification and sample assessment materials on our website: ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse-history-a-explaining-the-modern-world-j410-from-2016/.
When writing this part of the qualification, we often used this website for inspiration as there are some fantastic stories and pictures on here, shared by your members, so I would like to thank you for this.
If you are interested in hearing any more about this qualification, or if you have any stories you would like to share from this period that we could use to help make this course come alive for students, please do let me know.
Also, we will be producing lots of resources to go alongside this unit of our History qualification and if anyone would be interested in seeing these, again please let me know and I can share them with you all.
Best wishes,
Clare.
My name is Clare and I am a History Subject Specialist for a UK exam board called OCR. We are currently developing new GCSEs, qualifications taken by 16 year-olds in the UK, and I wanted to let you know that we have a new unit in our ‘Explaining the Modern World’ History GCSE called ‘Poland 1956-1990: The People and the State’.
This will be an optional depth study and we hope very much that UK students and teachers will be very interested in this period of Poland’s history.
In studying this unit, learners will need to be familiar with key political, social and economic developments in Poland from 1956-1990, but the primary focus of the depth study will be on how these events and developments affected different groups within the state. Learners will be required to study the following issues:
- the policies of the state, including their aims and implementation;
- the impact of the state on different groups throughout the period, including different social classes, women, young people, religious and ethnic groups;
- the reasons for, and extent of, support and/or opposition to the state from different groups throughout the period; and
- the ways in which source material from the time can be used to investigate the challenges above, and the challenges presented by the use of primary source material.
For full details of the course, please look at our specification and sample assessment materials on our website: ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse-history-a-explaining-the-modern-world-j410-from-2016/.
When writing this part of the qualification, we often used this website for inspiration as there are some fantastic stories and pictures on here, shared by your members, so I would like to thank you for this.
If you are interested in hearing any more about this qualification, or if you have any stories you would like to share from this period that we could use to help make this course come alive for students, please do let me know.
Also, we will be producing lots of resources to go alongside this unit of our History qualification and if anyone would be interested in seeing these, again please let me know and I can share them with you all.
Best wishes,
Clare.
