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What is a climate justice approach to teaching history and social studies?
Posted by Heather E. McGregor and Rebecca S. Evans on 2026-02-13
It is our view that all teachers have a role to play in preparing young people for a climate-unstable present and future. But taking on that role is not easy. Teachers encounter a wide range of demands, like focusing on solutions rather than only on describing the problems, engaging in action while avoiding partisanship, emphasising local priorities such as food sovereignty, or teaching [...]
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“What can we actually do?” The place of ALL teachers in developing Democratic Consciousness in Australia
Posted by David Nally, Steven Kolber and Keith Heggart on 2025-11-11
Teachers, especially history teachers, are crucial to helping students realise their role as citizens within our democratic society. Typically, Australian democracy is an exercise in national unity; In 2024 it represented an airing of divisions. Racial, regional, and economic fissures were aired, yet at the same time we also saw the highest number of democratic elections in world history (nearly [...]
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Teaching History in HE during the pandemic and beyond
Posted by Marcus Collins and Jamie Wood on 2025-06-16
In the year or so after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, History teaching in UK higher education was transformed, as lectures and seminar were shifted online, fieldtrips became impossible, and examination halls were closed. We – history lecturers – had to shift our teaching online and our students were forced to work remotely, foregoing much that is vital to the ‘student experience’ [...]
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Burden of Benefit: Is Professional Development Beneficial in the History Classroom?
Posted by Jeffrey M Byford, Presley Shilling and Alisha Milam on 2025-06-05
Since the increased emphasis on high-stakes testing in the United States, school administrators have prioritized professional development to enhance content knowledge and teaching methods in the classroom. Traditionally, professional development has focused on subject areas considered vital to national interests. Subjects such as mathematics, science, and language arts receive the majority of [...]
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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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