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Discerning Risk-Takers from Avoiders: Which Teachers are More Likely to Support Teaching about the Violent Past in Ambon, Indonesia?
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Anton Abdul Fatah; Line Kuppens; Arnim Langer – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2024
In 2005, Kitson and McCully introduced the 'risk-taking' continuum, representing the multiple ways in which teachers in post-conflict societies deal with the history of conflict in the classroom. 'Avoiders', at one extreme, refrain from teaching the violent past, while at the other extreme 'risk-takers' analyse multiple perspectives on what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, History Instruction, Local History
Modernism, Modernity and Contemporality: Conceptualizing the Modern in Scotland's Modern Studies
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Joseph Smith – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
This paper offers an analysis of Modern Studies, a school subject unique to Scotland. First taught in the 1960s, Modern Studies was originally conceived as an option for students discontinuing their studies in history and geography. Since then, though, Modern Studies has carved a distinctive curricular niche and has become one of the most popular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Philosophy, Modern History, Social Studies