Shell-Shock or Sisterhood: English School History and Feminist Practice

In this article, I focus on the possibilities for feminist practice at a time when governments throughout the world are making increasingly prescriptive and conservative interventions in the school curriculum. I consider this in the specific context of debates about school history which emerged with the creation of the English (and Welsh) National Curriculum. While I explore school history in the English National Curriculum as a case-study of the impact of ideology on the school curriculum, I do so in the hope that this study will contribute to a general understanding about curriculum change and its implications for feminist practitioners.