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Zrudlo, Ilya – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2022
In this essay, I ask what form of historical consciousness schools should nurture in students. The two criteria I set up in this regard are plausibility--is the account of history plausible--and practicality--does the form of historical consciousness help young people contribute to the betterment of society. The level of my analysis is that of…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Historical Interpretation, Teaching Methods, Consciousness Raising
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Hedley-Carter, Eleri – Teaching History, 2022
As an Early Career Teacher, Eleri Hedley-Carter set out to make the history she teaches in school more reflective of her undergraduate study of history--a discipline that strives to uncover a diverse past through various lenses and historical methods. In addition to expanding her school's curriculum to include an enquiry that centred on African…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Historical Interpretation, Females, African Culture
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David Bussell – Social Studies, 2024
In recent decades, history and education scholars in the Western world have argued for a constructivist approach to disciplinary thinking in the teaching and learning of History, known as "historical thinking". Yet, there has been little classroom-based empirical research exploring how teachers engage with historical thinking theory,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, History Instruction, Classroom Research, Secondary School Teachers
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Julie Anne Sweet – History Teacher, 2024
December 16, 2023, was the 250th anniversary of an event that has become known as the "Boston Tea Party." This article discusses an upper-level history class about that event that allowed students to take a closer look at what really happened that night. In addition to the traditional approach of having students read large volumes of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, History Instruction, Role Playing
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Nena Mocnik – Studies in Higher Education, 2025
This paper explores the evolving role of trauma in history education, particularly within the context of the Council of Europe's vision of 'understanding the past as vital for a shared future'. The rise of memory studies and remembrance culture in Europe has shifted the focus from impersonal historical events to more personal microhistories and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, European History, College Faculty, Trauma Informed Approach
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Thorp, Robert; Persson, Anders – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
The notion of historical thinking has in recent years become popular in research on history education, particularly so in North America, the UK and Australia. The aim of this paper is to discuss the cognitive competencies related to historical thinking, as expressed by some influential Canadian researchers, as an history educational notion from…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Intellectual Disciplines, History, Teaching Methods
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Reisman, Abby; Jay, Lightning – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Despite decades of research to the contrary, public discourse continues to insist on the direct power of curriculum to shape student learning, rather than acknowledge the complex and situated ways that teachers and curricular materials interact to shape enacted instruction. In this paper, we use a model of curriculum enactment to illustrate the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, History Instruction, United States History, African American History
Sara Karn – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
Historical empathy involves a process of attempting to understand the thoughts, feelings, experiences, decisions, and actions of people from the past within specific historical contexts. Although historical empathy has been a rich area of study in history education for several decades, this research has largely taken place outside of Canada. In…
Descriptors: History, History Instruction, Empathy, Teaching Methods
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Miles, James; Gibson, Lindsay – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2022
Since the early 2000s, the use of the term presentism has rapidly increased in both the historical discipline and public discussions of history. Most recently, presentism has been widely discussed and debated in articles about the pulling down and defacement of statues in countries around the world inspired by the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Historians, Definitions
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Benger, Alex – Teaching History, 2022
Concerned by the growing tendency of politicians and press to revive the moral balance-sheet approach to British imperial history and by some evidence of its resurgence in schools, Alex Benger set about devising a framework which would keep pupils' analysis rigorously historical, rather than moral and politicised. In this article, he sets out his…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, World History, Foreign Policy
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Paricio, Javier – History Education Research Journal, 2021
The epistemological concept of perspective meets all the conditions set by Meyer and Land (2003, 2006) to be considered a threshold concept for history learning. Following this initial hypothesis, this paper analyses the concept and the ways in which it constitutes a threshold: grasping perspective not only transforms one's understanding of…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Learning Processes, Perspective Taking, Epistemology
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Carroll, Kay; Littlejohn, Kate – Curriculum Journal, 2022
The paper critiques the curriculum construction of historical consciousness within Australian school systems. National and trans-national discourses about identity, culture, gender, race and class influence the development of historical consciousness in Australian classrooms. During this unprecedented period of shared grief and global trauma,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Historical Interpretation, Social Justice
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Eden, Jason – History Teacher, 2022
History departments at many colleges and universities offer upper-level courses that focus upon the craft of the discipline. These stand-alone methods classes often lack the specific time period and geographic region that typically anchor history curriculum. Although most graduate programs in history provide in-depth exposure to historical theory,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Historiography, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
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Harley-McKeown, Sophie – Teaching History, 2020
In this article Sophie Harley-McKeown identifies and addresses her Year 12 students' blind spot over agentive explanation. Noticing that the examination board to which she teaches uses 'motivations' rather than 'aims' prompted her to consider whether her students really knew what that meant. Finding that her students' causal explanations tended to…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Secondary School Students, Motivation, Teaching Methods
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Card, Jane – Teaching History, 2023
Jane Card's previous work on the power of images in conveying particular interpretations and her advice about how to use visual material effectively in classrooms will be familiar to readers of "Teaching History." In this article she focuses specifically on the capacity of visual representations to convey a compelling message about the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Historical Interpretation, National Curriculum, Visual Aids
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