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Van Havere, Timo; Wils, Kaat; Depaepe, Fien; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Nieuwenhuyse, Karel – London Review of Education, 2017
Since the early nineteenth century, western governments have expected history education to play a vital role in the formation of a national identity and the pursuit of national cohesion, by fostering shared knowledge and a shared (master)narrative of the national past. This article reports on a qualitative study that examines which narratives…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, European History, History Instruction, Secondary Education
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Van Nieuwenhuyse, Karel; Wils, Kaat; Clarebout, Geraldine; Verschaffel, Lieven – McGill Journal of Education, 2015
The present plays an important part in history education, in particular in efforts to make the study of the past relevant for today. This contribution examines how the relationship between past and present is dealt with in current Flemish secondary history education by analyzing 190 written history exams for the 11th and 12th grade. Ten percent of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Secondary Education, Tests
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Vanhulle, Bert – History of Education, 2009
The philosophical background of the subject history in secondary education has been mainly addressed through research based on "obvious" source types (curricula, discussions in committees or journals, ...). This article proposes a narrative method of analysing history textbooks in order to study the underlining historical philosophy of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, History Instruction, Textbook Content, Content Analysis