Intentional, tacit, contingent: knowledge recontextualization in the official History curriculum - a Critical Discourse Analysis

Figures & data

Table 1. Number of available units across A-Level specifications by chronological period (AB = Awarding Body)

	AB1	AB2	AB3	Total
Pre-Medieval Up to ca. 1000	5	0	0	5
Medieval ca. 1000 to ca. 1500	7	2	4	13
Early Modern ca. 1450 to ca. 1750	21	9	7	37
Modern ca. 1700-c.1950	14	8	10	32
Majority/all Twentieth Century	11	9	19	39

Table 2. Number of available units across A-Level specifications by geography

	AB1		AB2		AB3		Total
	M	S	M	S	M	S	M	S
Great Britain and Ireland	20	2	10	0	15	0	45	2
Europe	25	5	13	0	17	2	55	7
Middle East	3	2	0	2	0	3	3	7
Africa	2	1	0	1	1	1	3	3
North America	3	5	4	0	4	2	11	7
Latin and Central America and the Caribbean	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3
Asia, the Pacific and Australasia	5	3	1	2	3	14	9	19

M = main focus; S = some content

Table 3. Number of available units across A-Level specifications by method/perspective

	AB1		AB2		AB3		Total
	M	S	M	S	M	S	M	S
Political	50	4	28	1	28	9	106	14
Military	2	27	0	6	2	6	4	39
Economic	0	38	0	19	0	29	0	86
Social or Cultural	6	35	1	21	10	26	17	82

M = main focus; S = some content

Social and cultural history differ methodologically, but intended emphasis could not always be reliably inferred, so the categories were combined.

Table 4. Cross-tabulation of geographic and chronological coverage

	Pre-Medieval	Medieval	Early Modern	Modern	Twentieth Century
British	2	8	16	14	5
European	2	4	18	11	20
Middle East	1	0	1	0	1
Africa	0	0	1	0	2
North America	0	0	0	5	6
Latin/Central America	0	0	0	0	0
Asia-Pacific	0	1	1	2	5