There are fewer students continuing to study history in Year 12 than ever before. But that doesn’t mean they don’t value it.
Articles on History Education
Displaying 1 - 20 of 23 articles
Students respond to history that feels local and personal. There are ways to do that even as Holocaust survivors pass away, one professor writes.
Research from a project about thinking historically for Canada’s future finds curricula must do far more to challenge dominant narratives and value Indigenous worldviews.
Critical thinking involves specific skills for assessing evidence, but background knowledge about the subject is also essential.
Justin Trudeau has resigned, but the Liberal Party faces an uphill battle heading into a federal election year. Here are some lessons from the Roman Empire on leadership and governance.
‘Vlad the mad’ psychological analyses don’t help us understand Russia’s war. Historians gain insights by examining the enabling and determining factors behind why conflicts erupt.
A survey of history teachers in Canada showed the prevalence of the myth of objectivity among history teachers.
The study of the Holocaust, as the ultimate example of genocide, allows teachers to raise the universal message of human rights abuses and mass violence.
Once stripped of their symbolic power, problem monuments offer what educators call ‘teachable moments,’ helping people assess society’s current values and compare them with what mattered in the past.
An analysis of Australian history narratives in secondary school textbooks shows many still repeat the myth that Aboriginal peoples were nomadic hunter-gatherers.
As our societies lose paper trails and increasingly rely on digital information, historians, and their grasps of context, will become more important than ever.
A scholar’s efforts to learn how textbooks in New Jersey were portraying the Holocaust leads her to testify against a history teacher who taught his students to question if the Holocaust took place.
Australia has been having the same disagreement about what and how history should be taught. We need to move on and listen to the evidence so our children have the best history education possible.
History movies may have Oscar potential, but their educational potential is more complicated. Should teachers use Hollywood to teach?
Michael Gove must be off his head. In Germany any politician who tried giving professionals a history lecture would be considered a lunatic. German historians love to argue among themselves, and there…
In 2008, historian Dr. Anna Clark conducted a survey of the state of history education in Australian classrooms. The book that resulted from this study — History’s Children — presented a bleak image of…
In the last week of the campaign, some naggingly familiar comments came out from the Coalition. Then opposition leader Tony Abbott said he wanted to see the national curriculum in history changed because…
“What are your legs? Springs. Steel springs”. Archy’s nervous mutterings before he sprints into gunfire are familiar in Australian history classes. So are the tale of Simpson and Duffy and their “bravest…
All human societies construct and teach creation myths or origin stories. These are large, extraordinarily powerful, but often ramshackle narratives that try and tell the story of how everything came to…
FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: We continue our series on the rise of online and blended learning and how free online courses are set to transform the higher education sector. Today Ruth Morgan looks at the…
Top contributors
-
Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
-
Senior Lecturer in Education, Deakin University
-
Director, Global Affairs, George Mason University
-
PhD Candidate and Researcher, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University
-
Professor, Dept of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University
-
Associate Professor of Education, Penn State
-
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
-
Professor of History, University of Waterloo
-
Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Connecticut
-
Lecturer in Cultural Studies in Health
-
Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut
-
Associate Professor in Modern European History and Jewish History, UNSW
-
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Charleston
-
Associate Professor History in Education, UCL
-
Professor of Sociology, Rowan University