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Rantala, Jukka; Manninen, Marika; van den Berg, Marko – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
In 2011, the Finnish National Board of Education assessed the learning outcomes of history with a study whose results raised doubts about the fulfilment of the goals of history education. This article seeks to expand awareness about Finnish adolescents' understanding of historical empathy. The study assessed twenty-two 16-17-year-old high school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Adolescents, Empathy
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Smagorinsky, Peter; Daigle, Elizabeth Anne; O'Donnell-Allen, Cindy; Bynum, Susan – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
This article reports a study of one high school senior's process of academic bullshitting as she wrote an analytic essay interpreting Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing." The construct of bullshit has received little scholarly attention; although it is known as a common phenomenon in academic speech and writing, it has rarely been the subject…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, English Curriculum, Secondary Education, Essays