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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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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