This article explores how we deal with controversial topics, traumatic pasts, and uncomfortable truths about world history.
Tag Archive for ‘History Teaching (Geschichtsunterricht)’
Um exame e os debates públicos
This article deals with issues related to feminism and the LGBTQIA+ community, which were elaborated on the National High School Exam (Enem).
Daring to Teach the Civil War in Lebanon
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 ›
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Abstract: Jordanian teachers in private schools are in most cases teaching historical content seen as significant by the writers of these international curricula.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…