The recognition of the Anthropocene paves the way to the formation of a new knowledge regime attuned to study the human and the natural worlds in their entanglement.
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Kindergarten: A Place for Historical Thinking
Specialists in the teaching of the natural sciences have long recognised kindergarten as a key environment in forming young persons’ interest and abilities in science. Do kindergartens also include historical and civic education?
On the Grammars of School History: Who Whom?
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.
Teaching Historical Thinking: Dilemmas not Dichotomies!
Breadth versus depth, content versus skills, inquiry versus memorization, textbooks versus primary sources; history educators in the U.S. hear dichotomies like these all the time. But framing these as dichotomies, …