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Historical Consciousness, Social Justice, and Sirkka Ahonen
Posted by David Nally on 2025-04-02
There are two intentions I wrote this paper with: (1) to hopefully make Sirkka Ahonen more widely known, particularly in my own writing context of Australia, and (2) to highlight what learnings educators might benefit from when reading her work. The case I am making in this paper is that Ahonen’s understanding of historical consciousness can serve as a catalyst for embedding a social justice [...]
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Historical thinking, historical agency, and the future: Time and climate activism
Posted by Matthias Sieberkrob and Nina Reusch on 2025-03-12
Our article examines how climate activists in Germany think historically and thus create visions of the future. From our research, we find that the activists see themselves as part of a tradition of social movements, from civil rights to women’s suffrage, that achieved dramatic change by challenging the status quo. At the heart of our research lies the concept of ‘historical thinking towards the [...]
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Forging the Future: Young Greeks' Views on the Asia Minor Catastrophe and Its Relevance Today
Posted by Μaria Repoussi and Georgia Kouseri on 2025-01-14
The year 2022 marked a significant centennial in Greek history—the one hundredth anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, a pivotal event that reshaped Greek identity and left a lasting imprint on collective memory. The Asia Minor Catastrophe has a significant impact on the collective memory and historical consciousness of modern Greece. This historical perception influences citizens' attitudes [...]
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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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