Personal Details: Chapman, Arthur

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Arthur Chapman, EdD, MPhil (*1966), is senior lecturer in history education at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. He was a history teacher for 12 years prior to taking a university post in history education and has worked at the universities of Cumbria and Edge Hill as well as London. He is a series editor of the International Review of History Education, an associate editor of the London Review of Education and of the International Journal of Historical Learning Teaching and Research and he co-edited Teaching History in 2007-2013. His main research interest is in developing historical thinking, and, in particular, in young peoples’ understandings of historical argument, of historical explanation and of conflicts of historical interpretation.

Arthur Chapman, Dr. päd. (*1966), ist Professor für Geschichtsdidaktik am Institut für Bildungswissenschaften der Universität London. Zuvor war er 12 Jahre als Lehrer an der Schule und als Lehrbeauftragter an den Universitäten Cumbria, Edge Hill und auch London tätig. Er ist Mitherausgeber der Reihe "International Review of History Education" und der Zeitschriften "London Review of Education" und "International Journal of Historical Learning Teaching and Research". Darüber hinaus war er Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift "Teaching History" (2007-2013). Sein hauptsächliches Forschungsinteresse liegt in der Entwicklung des historischen Denkens, insbesondere darin, wie Heranwachsende historische Argumente, Erklärungen und Interpretationskonflikte verstehen.

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• Relativity, Historicity and Historical Studies

  Relativität, Historizität und historische Studien

  By Chapman, Arthur on March 15, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  Paradoxically, relativity or relativism is often presented in an absolutist manner, as the proposition that nothing is true, and as a credo in which all is to be doubted apart from doubt itself....

  Relativity, Historicity and Historical Studies

• Make It Strange — History as an Enigma, not a Mirror

  Make It Strange – Geschichte als Mythos, nicht als Reflexion

  By Chapman, Arthur on November 09, 2017

  

  History educators insist on the power and critical importance of knowing history and thinking historically about our collective pasts. Should history education display more awareness of its own past?

  Make It Strange — History as an Enigma, not a Mirror

• Disturbing Historical Ignorance: Narrative, Doxa, Paradox

  Beunruhigende historische Ignoranz: Narrativ, Doxa, Paradox

  By Chapman, Arthur on March 16, 2017

  

  The absence of the past is often disconcerting and uncanny but is, nevertheless, inevitable. Reflections on the reasons for historical ignorance.

  Disturbing Historical Ignorance: Narrative, Doxa, Paradox

• On the Diagnosis and Treatment of Narrative Vices

  Zur Diagnose und Behebung von narrativen Untugenden

  By Chapman, Arthur on November 10, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  All history is narrative to one degree or another, as Danto has shown, and those who disdain narrative usually end-up telling stories, nonetheless, in their historical writing. We all live narrative projects...

  On the Diagnosis and Treatment of Narrative Vices

• On the Grammars of School History: Who Whom?

  Über die Grammatiken schulischer Geschichte: Wer wen?

  By Chapman, Arthur on March 31, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Grammar has a reputation for tedium, and a well-deserved one, perhaps,... Historical grammars can, however, be a valuable tool for appraising historical thinking and for reflecting on how school history is made and understood.

  On the Grammars of School History: Who Whom?