Introducing Balfour Project's Schools Workshops Programme
Posted: 17th February 2025
Introducing Balfour Project’s Schools Workshops Programme!
Our commitment to justice, security, and equal rights in Palestine and Israel is driven by two main areas of work: advocacy and education.
Our expert-led workshops for KS3-5 & History PGCE courses form a key part of Balfour Project’s education programme. Designed to illuminate historical processes and perspectives overlooked in traditional curricula and the national conversation on 20th and 21st-century Palestine and Israel, these workshops foster a deeper understanding of Britain’s colonial history in Palestine, encourage thoughtful dialogue, and empower students to critically engage with the past and its enduring legacy.
Our 100-minute skills-based masterclass “Colonial Practices and Resistance in Mandatory Palestine 1922-1948” equips students with the tools – critical source analysis training – and historical knowledge, to decipher and interrogate historical narratives and representations of Palestine and Israel. Through discussion and group activity, students dive into a curated collection of memoirs, newspapers, photos, letters, poems, oral history testimonies, and colonial documents from Palestinian, Israeli, UK, and US archives. Integrating leading historical research into UK classrooms, the masterclass is an indispensable resource for a curricula on empire, decolonisation, and the 20th century Middle East, and serves as a valuable introduction to undergraduate humanities work and exam preparation.
“It was one of the best inputs of its kind we’ve had this year; thoughtful, well-resourced and planned, and brilliantly delivered.”
PGCE History Subject Leader
Our 60 minute lecture & Q&A “From the Balfour Declaration to the Gaza War“ offers a condensed overview of Britain’s role in Palestine, the Nakba (1947-1948), the occupation, resistance, and the contemporary history of Gaza. Tailored for both classroom and assembly settings, this session provides students with a historical framework to understand the ongoing challenges in Palestine and Israel and the wider Middle East.“Your talk made it so clear, both the history and the current situation, particularly in Gaza. We are fed such simple, blinkered explanations in the media. You opened my eyes.”
KS5 Student
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