The History Education Research Journal is excited to share the launch and publication of a new special series on ‘History Education Beyond the Classroom’.

Edited by Prof Arthur Chapman (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, UK) and Prof Rūta Kazlauskaitė (University of Helsinki, Finland), this open access special series brings together a collection of high-quality articles that explore how history education could and should think about forms of presenting, representing and enacting pasts, and the implications of their omnipresence in young peoples’ lifeworlds for the aims and forms of formal history education.

As a collection of articles ranging from case studies of immersive learning in museums to informal historical learning in the home, this series intends to map and reflect upon wider forms and formats of history education in their social, formal and technological variety.

History education occurs continually, in all contexts where the intersections of public and personal pasts, presents, and futures are brought to light and negotiated in the various formal and informal settings of everyday life.

Read the first article published in this series:

Informal historical learning at home: on historical culture and everyday historical thinking of children authored by Christoph Kühberger (Universität Salzburg, Austria). In ‘Everyday History: Exploring Informal Historical Learning in Children's Homes’ the author discusses their paper and identifies three recurring modes of engagement.

More articles are due to publish in this special feature over time and readers can stay up-to-date with new articles by registering for the journals News and Publication Alerts at https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/site/subscribe.

Read the open access special series for free at https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/collections/613/.

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