History education has a key contribution to make in developing a deeper understanding of the current environmental crisis, but its role is too often overlooked. When embedded in the school curriclum, environmental history adds crucial layers of knowledge to the learning from other subjects and can enable students to make their own informed contributions to one of the most pressing concerns of the 21st century.

History and the Climate Crisis makes the case for including an environmental focus in the secondary school history curriculum by locating its arguments within established historiographical and revisionist debates. It provides much-needed subject knowledge in an area that is new for most history teachers. The author considers the disciplinary and pedagogical challenges and demonstrates how including an environmental focus can strengthen students' disciplinary knowledge. She also builds her argument through the use of many examples and offers practical strategies for use in classrooms, including developed enquiries suitable for the secondary history curriculum. The book focuses on environmental history within a strong subject bound curriculum and will be relevant to teachers, academics and policymakers in the UK and internationally

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Preface

Part I: Perspectives on subject knowledge

1 How the history curriculum was shaped and why it needs to change
2 Scale in history: why it matters and how to navigate between different scales
3 Key turning points in humanity's relationship with nature
4 Humanity's relationship with nature: examples from history
5 The role of microbes in shaping human history
6 Environment and other revisionist themes in history
7 How environmental perspectives impact on disciplinary concepts

Part II: Into the classroom

8 Pedagogical approaches to the challenge of teaching environmental history
9 Embedding environmental perspectives into classroom practice
10 Challenging the curriculum

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Kate Hawkey is a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol where she coordinated the secondary history initial teacher education programme for many years.