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History Education in Historical Perspective
Posted by HERJ Editorial Office on 2024-11-06
The History Education Research Journal is excited to share the launch and publication of a new special series on ‘History Education in Historical Perspective’. Edited by Dr Tyson Retz (University of Stavanger, Norway) and Prof Terry Haydn (University of East Anglia, UK), this open access special series brings together a collection of high-quality articles that explore different national [...]
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Learning from history – how could it work?
Posted by Maren Tribukait on 2024-10-25
There has been a lot of discussion on whether it is possible to learn from history – especially from the abysses of the 20th century. In the current political situation, this question seems to be more relevant than ever as quite a few people seem to have forgotten about the era of National Socialism and fascism. Although there might be a lot of reasons for this, I wondered whether the pedagogical [...]
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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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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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