The British Empire should be taught to school pupils like Nazi Germany, curriculum guidelines from the “leading provider of support for schools and trusts” insist. The Telegraph has more.
Guidance created by school support organisation The Key and offered to teachers across the country provides tips on how to make the history curriculum “anti-racist”.
Teachers are advised to present the British Empire to secondary pupils like Nazi Germany, as a power that “committed atrocities”.
Pupils should also not be taught about the balance of “good and bad” aspects of Empire, the guidance states.
The “anti-racism curriculum review” guidance was created by The Key, which began as a Government pilot and now provides teaching resources to more than 100,000 school leaders.
The guide for teachers works as a series of prompts, to which answers are provided.
If “topics such as the British Empire taught impartially (i.e., as if the British Empire was an equal mix of good and bad)” while other topics are not, teachers are told to “re-frame” the subject.
Guidance seen by the Telegraph states that teachers should “teach colonialism as ‘invading and exploiting’ other countries, and present the British Empire as you would other global powers that committed atrocities, e.g. Nazi Germany”.
It adds that staff should “avoid presenting the British Empire as an equal balance of good and bad”, explaining: “The problem with the ‘balance sheet’ model is that the beneficiaries of Empire were one group of people (i.e., the colonisers) and the losers were those who were colonised.”
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