Abstract: The national curriculum in Lebanon has remained unchanged since 1997. Not only is the 1975-1990 civil war a highly sensitive historical event, but the national education system has made… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘History Teaching (Geschichtsunterricht)’
Building Skills for Life Through Controversial Events
Abstract: Eleni Zanou from Cyprus presents her motivations for teaching history ‘unconventionally’. She explains that using the one and only textbook entails many risks – such as the lack of… Read More ›
Creating an Arab Lens to Learning World History
Abstract: Jordanian teachers in private schools are in most cases teaching historical content seen as significant by the writers of these international curricula. As a result of this unusual situation,… Read More ›
Agencies of Public History: School Teachers
Teachers from Jordan, Cyprus, Lebanon and Turkey share the risks they took in the pedagogies they pioneered and histories they unveiled.
Digital Public History in Teaching-Learning Contexts
Within a few days of Corona-led change, “online learning” moved further into the spotlight of public debates and of teaching history.
What’s History For?
Questions on the purpose of history and history traditions are far from new, but they reach us as educators with greater force then ever. Defining…
What Influences Public History the Most
It is the history-related beliefs of teachers that make the difference. The communication of history in public as well is less influenced by scientific findings than by the beliefs of the people involved.
Normative Overload: What About Empirical Validity?
Currently, German history didactics is focusing on narrative competence. The resultant normative overload, is not unproblematic – to say the least.