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John L. Hennessey – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2024
The politicization of history education relating to colonialism in former major colonial powers, like Britain and France, and former colonies has for obvious reasons received ample scholarly attention. But how is colonial history represented in educational materials aimed at primary school students in countries with a less evident connection to…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Teaching Methods, History Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Elmersjö, Henrik Åström; Persson, Anders – History Education Research Journal, 2023
Controversial issues are often regarded as abundant in history education. Most topics can be regarded as controversial in one way or another. The purpose of this article is to analyse the way history teachers in Swedish lower secondary schools relate controversial issues to a particular view of the nature of the subject of history. By analysing…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), History Instruction, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers
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Bagerius, Henric; Dahl, Izabela A.; Engren, Jimmy – History Teacher, 2023
The purpose of this article is to discuss the opportunities and challenges of using students' personal narratives of the past as a vehicle and catalyst for learning history. The point of departure is a research project entitled "My Historical Backpack," conducted at Örebro University in Sweden since the fall of 2016. The project is a…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, College School Cooperation
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Kindenberg, Bjorn – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) informed genre theory, this paper investigates the interplay between narrative and analytical representations of the past in texts used for history-educational purposes. In this paper, it is argued that the role of narrative merits further attention in history genre descriptions. Thirteen history…
Descriptors: Linguistics, History Instruction, Language Styles, Grade 8
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Persson, Anders; Berg, Mikael – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2022
The aim of this article is to increase our understanding of how history and social studies teachers in vocational preparation programmes (VET) in Sweden relate to the obligation of preparing students for their future lives as citizens. Previous research on VET programmes has primarily emphasised predetermined roles of education. Different critical…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Social Studies, History Instruction, Vocational Education
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Elmersjö, Henrik Åström – History of Education, 2021
This article explores representations of problems regarding citizenship in changes to the syllabi of social studies and history in Swedish secondary schools between 1970 and 2017. Previous research has shown that the general educational discourse changed from an emphasis on the societal needs of committed citizens to an emphasis on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, History Instruction, Course Descriptions
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Knutsen, Ketil; Knutsen, Ingunn – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020
This article discusses historical competence as reading and understanding use-of-history as it is expressed in different texts. Students need to develop competence in the use-of-history in order to approach the diversity and complexity of uses of history in our time. The use-of-history is also an aim in the curricula of Nordic countries. This…
Descriptors: History, Competence, History Instruction, Curriculum Design
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David Rosenlund; Magnus Persson – Curriculum Journal, 2024
In the study presented in this article, the aim is to further the understanding regarding the differences between pupils (aged 15-16) from schools with low or high socio-economic status (SES), regarding the amount and diversity of content knowledge in history that they have acquired by the end of compulsory schooling. Following a definition of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, History Instruction, Socioeconomic Status
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Stolare, Martin; Ludvigsson, David; Trenter, Cecilia – History Education Research Journal, 2021
The aim of this article is to problematise the use of visits to heritage sites in history education in primary school. The empirical basis is a questionnaire and interviews with teachers in Sweden. Theoretically, the perspective is linked to the discussion of affective practices. The results show the connection that some, but not all, teachers…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Historic Sites, Elementary School Students, Teacher Attitudes
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Spjut, Lina – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2021
This article explores ways in which textbook content can reflect national identity over time via a case study of Swedish textbooks. To this end, it analyzes and contextualizes descriptions of Finnish labor migrants in Sweden in seventy-four compulsory school textbooks. The Finnish labor group emigrated from Finland to Sweden mainly from the 1950s…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbook Content, Content Analysis, Migrant Workers
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Walldén, Robert – Cogent Education, 2022
This qualitative study focuses on Grade 6 students' possibilities to engage in disciplinary writing practices in history teaching in a school located in a socially disadvantaged and linguistically diverse area. The aim is to contribute knowledge about how students negotiate different literacy expectations in the teaching. The researcher used…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, History Instruction, Content Area Writing
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Wendell, Joakim – History Education Research Journal, 2020
The study investigates upper secondary school students' use of counterfactual reasoning when engaging in a task concerning historical explanation. The study analyses student answers to a prompt asking them to evaluate the causal importance of a historical actor for a historical event, aiming to characterize the counterfactuals used, as well as…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Secondary School Students, Logical Thinking, Foreign Countries
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Elmersjö, Henrik Åström – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Over the last 50 years, the school subject of history has increasingly been described as a subject about interpretation and multi-perspectivism. Discussing the subject this way might require a specific view of the subject's nature. This study investigates the genre position and epistemic cognition of Swedish upper secondary school history…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Schemata (Cognition), Epistemology
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Svensson, Carl-Johan; Samuelsson, Tobias – Social Studies, 2021
Lately, theme parks have emphasized the learning and edutainment aspects of their business. This has created new opportunities for theme parks and schools to cooperate. Research has shown that learning at science centers, a similar form of learning arena, tends to be out of context and that the learning outcomes are meager. High Chaparral, in…
Descriptors: Parks, Social Studies, History Instruction, Informal Education
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Silvervarg, Annika; Wolf, Rachel; Blair, Kristen Pilner; Haake, Magnus; Gulz, Agneta – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2021
Does a teachable agent influence the uptake or neglect of 'critical constructive feedback' and learning within a digital environment? 285 middle-school students engaged with a history learning game in a 2x2 study design. One dimension was inclusion of a teachable agent. Orthogonal was whether critical constructive feedback was presented…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response), Middle School Students, History Instruction
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