What information is held on the time spent teaching history in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2 and in comparison with the teaching o…

Information is not held centrally on the time spent teaching history in schools or on how schools teach history, including whether history is taught by someone without a history qualification. Curriculum for Excellence provides flexibility on time and content to teach history in the context of the experiences and outcomes and other curriculum guidance.
Developing knowledge and understanding of the world and Scotland''s place in it is among the learner entitlements in Curriculum for Excellence and the Social Studies principles and practice guidance makes clear that children and young people''s experiences will be broadened using Scottish, British, European and wider contexts for learning, while maintaining a focus on the historical, social, geographic, economic and political changes that have shaped Scotland.