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ERIC Number: EJ1198513
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 33
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0093-3104
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Where Does Teaching Multiperspectivity in History Education Begin and End? An Analysis of the Uses of Temporality
Wansink, Bjorn; Akkerman, Sanne; Zuiker, Itzél; Wubbels, Theo
Theory and Research in Social Education, v46 n4 p495-527 2018
This study reports five Dutch expert history teachers' approaches to multiperspectivity in lessons on three topics varying in moral sensitivity (i.e., the Dutch Revolt, Slavery, and the Holocaust) and their underlying considerations for addressing subjects' perspectives in different temporal layers. The lessons were observed and videorecorded, and the teachers were interviewed. Lessons were analyzed using a theoretical framework in which three different temporal layers of perspectives were distinguished, each with its own educational function. Teachers addressed multiple temporal layers and functions of multiperspectivity in almost all of their lessons. However, teachers' focus on temporal layers and function differed between lessons. Four categories of considerations for or against introducing specific subjects' perspectives were found: functional, moral, pedagogical, and practical. Moreover, teachers engaged in "normative balancing," meaning that not all perspectives were perceived as equally valid or politically desirable, showing where multiperspectivity ends.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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