Which new aspects and insights can a court’s decision bring to a historic event that happened almost nine decades ago?
Tag Archive for ‘Language: Greek’
Cracking the Canon, Escaping Curriculum
Abstract: In order to survive the tight embrace of content stuffed curricula, teachers need to find ways to serve the discipline of history while meeting the needs and interests of… 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 ›
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.
Civic Public Space as Conflictual Space
Lévesque agrees with Nora’s explanation for the repeated attacks against monumental figures all over the world: the “general politization…
The Public Lure of History Education
There is a debate about the relationship between history didactics, public history, and historical culture. Historical culture is a learning environment for history didactics. It shows many different ways in which the past is recreated in the present.
Moral and Cognitive Dilemmas in History Education
Public historians and history educators both aim at “reaching the world outside the academy”. They face some common dilemmas, part. in Holocaust education. The…
The ‘Burden of History’ and Controversial Issues
Issue: Educational Content. In Greece we tend to have rather “passionate debates over the national past” than about history education as a whole.