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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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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