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A key challenge confronting teacher educators is to help their students identify perspectives that depart from dominant historical narratives of a nation-state's development so as to potentially derive alternative meanings of shared pasts from marginalized perspectives. In this article, we examine the nature of this challenge both as a theoretical issue and empirical engagement with two classes of history and social studies teacher candidates. We identify several tensions involved in work with multiple perspectives that shape historical narratives: avoiding culturally reductive or stereotypical images of others, the taming of historical complexity for ease of communication, and something of a fraught encounter with the dissonance that echoes at the heart of historical identifications and perspectives. As we conclude, there is much to learn about teaching from engaging these tensions that emerge when we re-read in a writerly manner what and how we have been taught.

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The image that emergency planning generates is that of ‘Dad's Army’—elderly ex-military gentlemen handing out blankets and tins of food. With the development of a number of degree and postgraduate courses, such as International Disaster Engineering and Management at Coventry University, a significant change in the emergency planning profession has occurred. Add to this recent incidents such as the severe flooding in the UK and central Europe, the foot-and-mouth crisis, the Yarls Wood Immigration Centre fire, the fuel crisis and the terrorist attacks on the United States and the picture of the dynamic and ever-changing environment in which emergency planning officers now work becomes clear. Emergency planning has developed into a diverse,modern profession that in light of these incidents has become the responsibility of us all. This short paper looks at and explains the legislation that relates to emergency plan-ning, the role of emergency planning departments in local government, the emergency planning process and what the role of local government should be in response to an incident.