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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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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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History education in Portugal
Posted by Mariana Lagarto on 2024-12-12
This article is part of the special series History education in historical perspective that explores different national contexts of history education. The article provides historical insight of this research field in Portugal and it was grounded on data collected and analysed from a literature review and interviews with Isabel Barca (pioneer of history education in Portugal), Helena Pinto and [...]
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Do they know national history?
Posted by Ana Isabel Moreira and Isabel Barca on 2024-09-12
Our article in History Education Research Journal brought together Portuguese students from two different educational levels (6th and 9th grade) and based on their written narratives, we tried to understand how they use historical knowledge on a specific subject. In this case, each student told the History of Portugal that they knew, and the content of these texts allowed us to study two main [...]
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