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Teachers' Notes on Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement
Teachers' notes
This unique collection of oral history interviews captures the voices of those who powered the Women's Liberation Movement in Britain in the last three decades of the 20th century. This rich period provides an ideal topic for the secondary classroom, enabling students to become aware of the historical and ongoing battles for equal rights, to debate challenging issues that affect their own lives, and to use interviews as source material for research.
These teacher's notes provide ideas for activities in the secondary classroom. The activities will help encourage students to generate their own discussions both about women's liberation and the wider equality and human rights agenda. Students will be able to engage with the material as researchers, develop their own bodies of research, and produce creative responses inspired by the stories of the women and men on the site.
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World Council of Churches
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