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Teaching History in the climate crisis
Posted by Amanda Power and Alison Kitson on 2024-06-26
Our article addresses the role of school history in helping young people to navigate their future at a time of climate crisis. As we know, global heating, biodiversity collapse and environmental pollution are already affecting daily life everywhere, including in the UK. Their impacts will only intensify in the coming decades. One consequence of the failure of adults to act on the warnings of [...]
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A New Pedagogical Tool for Teaching with Historical Empathy
Posted by Sara Karn on 2024-06-10
My article, Designing historical empathy learning experiences: a pedagogical tool for history teachers, explores the pedagogies that history teachers use to foster historical empathy—a cognitive (thinking) and affective (feeling) process of attempting to understand the thoughts, feelings, experiences, decisions, and actions of people from the past, within their historical contexts. For this [...]
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Designing history lessons: a four-point guide to improve students’ learning of historical concepts
Posted by Wouter Smets on 2024-05-23
My article, published in History Education Research Journal, draws on theory from cognitive developmental psychology and presents four design principles to reinforce substantive historical concepts in history teaching and to foster historical thinking in history students. Teaching of concepts is traditionally regarded as one of the elementary goals of the humanities and social sciences. [...]
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The possibilities of school trips: what can study visits to historical sites like Auschwitz-Birkenau contribute to history education?
Posted by Mikael Berg and Martin Stolare on 2024-05-21
In our article for History Education Research Journal, we examine what possibilities exist for students to learn through encounters with historical sites, such as the Holocaust camps in Auschwitz-Birkenau. We investigated this issue through the pre- and post-visit work of a group of Swedish students who took a school trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The empirical analysis of the students' responses in [...]
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Calls for papers
Posted by HERJ Editorial Office on 2024-02-29
Throughout the year, History Education Research Journal launches a number of thematic special series exploring the journals aims and scope. Details of each special series and its calls for papers can be found in the below links. This page is kept up-to-date with all current special series calls for papers.Democratic resilience and regression in history education since 1945This special series will [...]
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