The modern consensus is that historical learning – in addition to historical content – must take greater account of learners with their individual experiences and knowledge: the so called subject orientation.
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Knowledge Structures and School History
Basil Bernstein’s two modalities of knowledge as “hierarchical” and “horizontal” are useful to help interpret the nature of historical knowledge…
Difficult Histories: Optional or Essential?
New Zealand’s high autonomy history curriculum fails to provide young people with essential knowledge about the colonial past. Educators should consider the essential knowledge that students deserve to have.
“Chronological Frameworks”, New History Strategy? (ИКС)
Some years have passed since the appearance of the Historical and Cultural Standard (ИКС) for teaching Russian history. It has significantly changed the…
International Politics, Return to National Memory in Turkey
Turkey has been confronted with an array of domestic and international problems. To face them, the state uses new means to strengthen a national…
History Textbooks – what and whom are they for?
In Austria, history classes provide competences, concepts, and topics, which should be persistently implemented in history textbooks in accordance with Ministry of Education. Historical thinking…
Seeing the “Big Picture” in Canadian History
To pass judgement on the ‘progress’ or ‘decline’ of a society over time, a big-picture perspective on history is needed. These big-picture frameworks are also important…
Culture, Civilization and Historical Consciousness
Revisions to the history curriculum currently under way in British Columbia, Canada replace, among other changes, a senior course on Comparative Civilizations with one entitled Comparative Cultures.