Personal Details: Guyver, Robert
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Robert Guyver, PhD, is an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Humanities in the University of Exeter, UK. He was a primary teacher for 21 years, an advisory teacher for a short period, and Senior Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at University College Plymouth St Mark and St John in the UK. In 1989-90 he was a member of the History Working Group drafting the national history curriculum for England. With Australia-based Tony Taylor he edited History Wars and the Classroom – Global Perspectives (IAP, 2012), and he edited (on his own) Teaching History and the Changing Nation State – Transnational and Intranational Perspectives (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016). From 2016 to 2018 he worked as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Tasmania where he was working with colleagues and undertaking research into history education across the Commonwealth of Nations. He is interested in setting up a network for teachers of history and their students in and across different Commonwealth jurisdictions. He is a Fellow of the Historical Association and of the Royal Historical Society.
Robert Guyver, Dr. phil., ist Honorarprofessor am College of Humanities der Universität von Exeter, UK. Er war 21 Jahre lang Grundschullehrer und für eine kurze Zeit Beratungslehrer, dann Dozent am University College Plymouth St Mark and St John in Grossbritannien. 1989/90 war er ein Mitglied der History Working Group, die den Entwurf für den englischen nationalen Geschichtslehrplan geschrieben hat. Mit dem australischen Kollegen Tony Taylor gab er das Buch History Wars and the Classroom – Global Perspectives (IAP 2012) heraus und (als alleiniger Herausgeber) Teaching History and the Changing Nation State – Transnational and Intranational Perspectives (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016). Von 2016 bis 2018 war er Gastprofessor an der Erziehungswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität von Tasmanien (2016-19), wo er gemeinsam mit KollegInnen geschichtsdidaktische Forschung im Rahmen des Commonwealth unternahm. Sein Interesse gilt dem Aufbau eines Netzwerks mit Geschichtslehrer*innen und ihren Schüler*innen in und über die Grenzen verschiedener Teile des Commonwealth. Er ist Mitglied der britischen Historical Association und der Royal Historical Society.
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