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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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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