Azim Premji University, Bhopal Campus, invites teachers and educators to an enriching workshop that aims to strengthen history teaching by supporting them to rethink how the past is taught, interpreted, and discussed in the classroom. Through this workshop, we will share pedagogical tools and perspectives that promote critical thinking, historical sensibility, and inclusive understanding of the past.

About the workshop

The ways in which our pasts are recounted, represented, and reproduced raise important questions about how historical knowledge is produced and understood. Since history seeks to retrieve narratives of the past and since the past and present are deeply intertwined, the teaching and learning of history have significant implications for contemporary society.

History is not merely a record of kings, queens, or political elites. It involves a deeper engagement with social structures, systems of power, everyday lives and the changing conditions through which societies have evolved. Engaging with history enables learners to explore multiple, layered and often contested pasts, helping them make sense of the world they inhabit today.

This workshop invites educators to reflect on how more informed, inclusive, and critical histories drawn from diverse contexts and communities can be brought into the classroom. At its core, the workshop sees history education as a transformative practice, one that nurtures critical thinking, ethical reflection, and collectively imagined futures.

Key thrust areas

The teachers’ pedagogy workshop will have lecture-based sessions on methods of historical enquiry, exercises on using primary and secondary sources in the classroom, and a discussion on the challenges and opportunities of teaching history in the digital age. The workshop will initiate a constructive dialogue among history teachers, educators, and instructors on a range of pressing questions that inform the teaching and learning of the subject at both school and university. The dialogue aims to foreground the following questions:

• How can we foster critical thinking and historical sensibility among students?
• How can we prompt them to make a fuller sense of the past with all its complexities, pluralities and ambivalences?
• How can we integrate a discussion of different historical sources, approaches and methods in our classroom lectures?

Who should attend?

• School-level history teachers
• Teacher educators
• University instructors teaching history or related disciplines
• Educators interested in critical pedagogy and curriculum design

Registration

We have limited seats. Please register here for the event.