Personal Details: Parkes, Robert

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Robert Parkes, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Curriculum Studies, and Convenor of the HERMES History Education Research Group, at the University of Newcastle; Founding Editor of Historical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education; a member of the Editorial Board of Agora / Sungråpho; Founding Co-Convenor of the ‘History and Education’ Special Interest Group within the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE); and a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the International Society for History Didactics (ISHD). In 2013 he was Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Umeå University, Sweden. His research interests include: historical theory and history education; historical consciousness and contemporary historical cultures; history teacher education; and curriculum history, theory and politics.

Robert Parkes, Dr. phil., ist Professor für Curriculumstudien und Leiter der geschichtsdidaktischen Forschungsgruppe (HERMES) an der Universität von Newcastle (Australien). Er ist der Gründungsherausgeber der Zeitschrift "Historical Encounters", Mitbegründer des Arbeitskreises Geschichtsdidaktik des australischen Verbandes für Bildungsforschung (AARE). Er ist auch Mitglied des Beirats der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Geschichtsdidaktik (ISHD). Seine Forschungsinteressen umfassen die Geschichtstheorie und die Geschichtsdidaktik, Geschichtsbewusstsein und zeitgeschichtliche Studien, die Aus- und Fortbildung von Geschichtslehrpersonen sowie Lehrplangeschichte, -theorie und -politik.

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/robert-parkes

• The Practical Legacy of Hayden White

  Hayden Whites praktisches Erbe

  By Parkes, Robert on May 10, 2018

  

  Two months ago the controversial and highly influential historical theorist Hayden White passed away. While his work has principally been debated in historical theory circles, his final work suggests ‘practical’ possibilities for public history

  The Practical Legacy of Hayden White

• Are Monuments History?

  Sind Denkmäler Geschichte?

  By Parkes, Robert on October 19, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Historic monuments are making the news. The removal of Confederacy leaders’ statues has provoked reaction in the USA. In Australia, at the same time, news that vandals had defaced the Captain Cook statue in Sydney, garnered attention.

  Are Monuments History?

• Historical Consciousness, Fake News, and the Other

  Historisches Bewusstsein, Fake News und das Andere

  By Parkes, Robert on May 18, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Seldom does a day go past since the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States without reports of "alternative facts" and "fake news". This presents both a problem and an opportunity for history educators.

  Historical Consciousness, Fake News, and the Other

• The Kali Controversy: Public History in Unusual Places

  Die Kali-Kontroverse: Public History an ungewöhnlichen Orten

  By Parkes, Robert on October 20, 2016

  

  Many of the debates we have over public history deal with 'serious' topics. Public history has a much wider ambit than this, and sometimes appears in unusual places. One such unusual venue is the martial arts.

  The Kali Controversy: Public History in Unusual Places

• Black or White? Reconciliation on Australia’s Colonial Past

  Schwarz und Weiß? Aussöhnung zur kolonialen Vergangenheit Australiens

  By Parkes, Robert on May 05, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  Reconciliation? The Daily Telegraph attempted to reignite Australia’s History Wars: “UNSW rewrites the history books to state Cook ‘invaded’ Australia”.

  Black or White? Reconciliation on Australia’s Colonial Past

• The Irony of Family History as a Source of Identity

  Die Ironie der Ahnenforschung als Identitätsquelle

  By Parkes, Robert on October 29, 2015

  

  Family history research is experiencing an unprecedented surge of interest, facilitated by the vast array of archives now accessible on the Internet, including social media style family tree websites such as ancestry.com that allow family historians to share their research.

  The Irony of Family History as a Source of Identity

• Decoding Da Vinci? A Public History Affair

  Da Vinci entschlüsseln? Eine geschichtskulturelle Affäre

  By Parkes, Robert on April 30, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  The Da Vinci Code was a work of fiction, but significant public interest in its claim to be drawing on a hidden history of Christianity forced agents of the Catholic Church, and scholars within the academy, to challenge the book’s historical and theological errors.  ...

  Decoding Da Vinci? A Public History Affair

• Big History: Can life go on without a meta-narrative?

  Big History: Gibt es ein Leben ohne Meta-Narrative?

  By Parkes, Robert on October 16, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  There is something attractive about ‘Big History’, David Christian’s approach to teaching the past. If World History is understood as an attempt to know the past beyond national categories, Big History seeks to understand the past at time scales that stretch from the human to the cosmic...

  Big History: Can life go on without a meta-narrative?