History GCSE
Community experience
What Community experience means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Community experience
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The lived experiences of a community, understood through local sources such as personal accounts, photographs and local newspapers.
Topics that use Community experience
- Option 12: The historic environment - 2 Knowledge, selection and use of sources for historical enquiries (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Analytical questioning
- Evidence gaps
- Evidence selection
- Historical enquiry
- Provenance
- Source evaluation
- Source utility
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