Expanding Economic and Industrial Understanding through History and Technology in an English Primary School

The article describes a joint History-Technology project undertaken with 10- and 11-year-old pupils in an English primary school with a view to developing the cross-curricular theme of Economic and Industrial Understanding. It involved lecturers from higher education, teachers from primary schools and employees of the Rover Car Company cooperating to produce materials for use in the classroom setting on the topic of the Car Industry. There is a discussion of the principles of EIU, the project in operation, the links to the specific aims of EIU and the role of EIU in relation to History and Design and Technology in the new National Curriculum.