Reflection and Editorial

New scholarship is giving voice to the Indigenous and migrant workers who were excluded from Australia’s early union movement.

Ghost signs are place-based opportunities to recognise the continuity between the people who built a local community and those who inhabit it now.

Placing themselves in the same physical space as an historical event can allow students to analyse, question and evaluate history far more successfully than by mere rote retention.

Statues along the St Kilda Road/Swanston Street corridor provide opportunities for students to develop their own historical judgements about who is being commemorated and why.

A walking tour of Melbourne’s CBD provides opportunities for VCE Australian History students to encounter historical sites that inform their investigation of power and resistance.

Using one’s local context as a starting point for studying World War I can also bring Anzac history to life.

A free audio tour brings to life the locations of anti-conscription protests and events in Melbourne during World War I.

Relationships between schools and local RSL organisations can create History lessons
that students will remember long after they have completed their studies.

Later this year the histories of Victoria’s government schools, dating back to 1850, will be
discoverable through the archives of Public Record Office Victoria.

Echuca was home to Victoria’s second largest port. Its riverboat economy remains afloat
within an educational precinct that brings to life the Murray River’s history.

Teaching of Australia’s rich history can be transformed through the lens of storytelling, immersive excursion experiences and activities that connect history with identity.

A Year 10 visit to the Melbourne Holocaust Museum can deepen historical understanding through inquiry, reflection and disciplinary thinking.

First Nations sites on Country are an excellent resource to teach First Nations history as part of the primary curriculum.

A teacher shares how place-based learning shapes their approach to teaching the American Revolution.

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