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Peer review week 2024 – HERJ Editors Q&A

Posted by HERJ Editorial Office on 2024-09-25

For Peer Review Week 2024 Sunbul Akhtar, the Journal Development Editor at UCL Press, spoke with editors of History Education Research Journal. In this Q&A blog they discuss the thought processes involved in peer review, the challenges behind the scenes and AI, providing an insight into a function of academic publishing that has become a cornerstone of research integrity. In this [...]

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. [...]

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.Investigating the relationship between generative artificial intelligence and history [...]