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Ana Lucia Lennert da Silva; Siri Wieberg Klausen – Multicultural Education Review, 2025
This study compared narratives of immigrant groups in history textbooks for secondary education in Norway, before and after the last curriculum reform of 2020. This reform promoted diversity and cultural awareness among other values. This study found developmental changes connected to immigrant groups, as indicated by an increased focus on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, History, Textbooks
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Yoon, Jong-pil – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
This essay critically examines the so-called 'unnaturalness' of historical thinking. I identify and analyse three lines of argument frequently invoked by historians to defend the validity of historical inquiry in response to scepticism, which is often couched in postmodern terms. In doing so, I highlight that these lines of argument are predicated…
Descriptors: History, Educational Philosophy, Postmodernism, Historians
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Filiz Zayimoglu Ozturk; Talip Ozturk – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2025
The concept of historical and democratic consciousness in Turkiye is approached in a multi-layered manner. These layers consist of a structure in which many factors such as historical process, social structure, education system, political developments, and cultural factors play a role. History lessons and curriculum focus on how younger…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Teaching Methods, Democratic Values, History
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Jared McBrady – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2025
This case study presents the development of a system that integrated two strands of SoTL research--Decoding the Disciplines and Students as Partners--into a secondary history teacher preparation program. This system simultaneously refined teaching in undergraduate history courses and provided authentic learning experiences for secondary education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Participation, History, Departments
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Dombo, Sylvester; Mujere, Joseph – Africa Education Review, 2021
The Zimbabwean crisis, which began around 2000, had serious ramifications for the teaching of history in the country, especially in high schools. This study investigated the impact of Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis on the production of syllabi for teaching history at high schools. It analyses the hurried changes in the secondary school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History, History Instruction, Course Descriptions
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Nordgren, Kenneth – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2019
This article explores an underlying tension between two understandings of historical consciousness. On one hand, the concept is often perceived as a specific ability to historicize the world and thus appears as a modern cultural achievement. On the other hand, it is also conceptualized as an anthropological universal as the ability to make sense…
Descriptors: History, Consciousness Raising, Anthropology, Educational Research
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Keynes, Matilda; Marsden, Beth – History of Education Review, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways that history curriculum has worked to legitimise dispossession through narratives that elide questions of Indigenous sovereignty, and which construct and consolidate white settler identity and possession. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses two case studies to compare history…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational History, Indigenous Populations
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Mora, Eva Infante; Greenwood, Davydd; Ivanchikova, Melina; Castilla-Vázquez, Carmen; Cid-Rodríguez, Rafael; Díaz, Bartolomé Miranda; Flores-Macías, Gustavo A. – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2019
This section of the account of the action research and thorough reform of the CASA-Sevilla study abroad programme describes how the courses in the fields of anthropology, history and art / art history were changed. It explains why a pedagogical reform was needed, the choices faculty members made and the difficulties they faced. Transitioning to an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Active Learning, College Programs
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Li, Yu-Chih – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2019
Due to its historical and geopolitical contestations, Taiwan is a country whose people possess divergent imaginations of the national community. Such a condition has been described as institutional liminality, which captures Taiwan's status as not a complete nation state nor a non-nation state; not China nor non-China. Under such a condition,…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, High School Students, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
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Carr, Elizabeth – Teaching History, 2016
Planning to deliver the new GCSE [General Certificate of Secondary Education] specifications presents a challenge and an opportunity to any history department, whatever their previous specification. The sweep of history that students will now study at GCSE is much broader than "Modern World" departments are used to; including a medieval…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Medieval History, Curriculum Development, Educational Planning
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Reingold, Matt – Journal of Jewish Education, 2018
Over the course of the 2015-2016 academic year, 12th-grade students at a Jewish high school in Canada participated in a research study that assessed how they integrated morally complex narratives in Israel's past into their own relationship with the country. This article presents material based on how students reacted to learning that some Jewish…
Descriptors: Jews, Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Grade 12
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Cytrin, Yitzhak – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
This article aims to examine the difficulties, misgivings, and criticism that exist in academia and the field of education, regarding creating history curricula relevant and significant to twenty-first century society and individuals; how compulsory history curricula can be suited to the methodology and didactics of training students as history…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, History Instruction, Teaching Methods, World Views
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Löfström, Jan – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
The article discusses how Finnish upper secondary school students ponder upon the questions of transgenerational responsibility and historical reparation. These questions have got a prominent place in the history culture in many societies in the last 20 years. The philosophical and political dimensions of reparations for historical injustices have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Responsibility, Justice
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Seixas, Peter – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2012
It is possible to long for the past: we "long" for something that once was present but is no longer--nostalgia. We "hope" for something that has never been present but might be in the future--dreams: this is the core of progress in the modernist project. What can "longing for the present" mean? We desire a situation that we already have? We long…
Descriptors: Postmodernism, History Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational History
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Bracey, Paul – Education 3-13, 2016
This study provides an evaluation of history subject leader's perceptions of a project called "Shaping the Future", together with their attitudes towards Black History and diversity. It found that primary subject leaders were less likely to attach importance to these dimensions than their counterparts in secondary schools, whilst only a…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Teacher Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Blacks
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