Courtesy National Museums Liverpool
STOP PRESS...STOP PRESS... Here's a fantastic CPD offer all about teaching the transatlantic slave trade from National Museums Liverpool and includes a travel and accommodation bursary for 25 UK teachers. But you'll need to act quickly as the closing date for applications is Tuesday June 1, 2010.
National Museums Liverpool (NML) is working in partnership with Liverpool Hope University to deliver a national teachers' Institute, Teaching the Transatlantic Slave Trade from July 26 until August 4, 2010 .
The Institute will bring together teachers for an eight day training programme to be held at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. The programme will explore themes including Life in West Africa prior to transatlantic slavery, the Middle Passage and Enslavement, Life in the Americas, Abolition, Resistance and the Legacies of transatlantic slavery. It will consider how these themes may be addressed across the curriculum with a series of interactive workshops and lectures. Participants will explore a number of approaches to teaching this subject area, whilst also improving their knowledge base.
Specialist delivery will be by International Slavery Museum Education staff and will feature a number of top speakers on the subject, including Dr Richard Benjamin, Head, International Slavery Museum, Anthony Tibbles, Emeritus Keeper of Slavery History (Transatlantic Slavery, Against Human Dignity, 2005), Professor Suzanne Schwarz, Liverpool Hope University (Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade, 2008), Professor Barbara Bush, Sheffield Hallam University (Imperialism and Post colonialism, 2006) and Professor Robin Law, University of Stirling (Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving 'Port', 1727-1892, 2004).
NML is also offering a travel and accommodation bursary for up to 25 teachers from across the UK. Participants will have the option to complete work to be accredited by Liverpool Hope University which may potentially contribute towards a further postgraduate qualification up to MA level (subject to validation).
If you are interested, you can register as individuals or as a group from the same school as long as you teach across different areas of the curriculum. A written statement needs to be provided detailing why you would benefit from attending the institute with an expectation that you will deliver two days of CPD to fellow teachers in your locality in the year 2010/11. The closing date for applications is Tuesday June 1, 2010.
For more information and to register
To register an interest and submit a statement, please email learning@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. If you would like more information regarding the institute please contact Diane Walsh, Education Manager, on telephone 0151 478 4209.
