London, UK

Since 2001, by working with a strong local group of volunteers and donors, we have been building our network in the United Kingdom. The UK has introduced a comprehensive mandate for Citizenship Education and therefore our emphasis on global citizenship fills a clear need.
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Our materials and pedagogy are currently used in 40 classrooms in greater London. These schools include Facing History Willowfield, which recently became a humanities specialist school and Woolwich Polytechnic in Greenwich.

At Willowfield, Facing History staff help teachers build their humanities curriculum and deliver professional development to teachers stressing both content and methodology. Head teacher Eve Wilson says, "As a humanities College our stated intent is to help students make sense of their world. Facing History's learning and teaching strategies and resources have been invaluable...their staff has a wealth of knowledge from educators around the globe...(we) learn from others' best practices as well as ...sharing some of our own."

By looking at challenging moments in world history, including the Holocaust as well as other examples of genocide and religious and ethnic hatred such as the Armenian genocide and apartheid in South Africa, we provide a rigorous examination of history and creative pedagogy. Students experience a course that is relevant, interesting and inspiring.

In the 4 years that we have worked with the entire history department at Woolwich, the number of students who are taking their GCSE's in history has increased from 21 to 70 in the current Year 10. Jo Upton, teacher at Woolwich says about Facing History students that they are "much more open to looking at the individual as an agent of historical change and to the role that the ordinary person can have in facilitating change."