Challenging Prominent Interpretations: The ‘Tulip Age’

The 'tulip age' was in Turkey generally known and taught as a period of pleasure and entertainment in Ottoman history.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/9-2021-4/tulip-age-turkey/

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OER – An Alternative Teaching Tool?

Abstract: This article adds a concrete aspect to the discussion on the design of teaching materials. It explores the question of whether and how Open Educational Resources can replace traditional... Read More ›

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/9-2021-4/collaboratively-developed-open-educational-resources/

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Cracking the Canon, Escaping Curriculum

Abstract: In order to survive the tight embrace of content stuffed curricula, teachers need to find ways to serve the discipline of history while meeting the needs and interests of... Read More ›

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/9-2021-4/cracking-canon-escaping-curriculum/

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Daring to Teach the Civil War in Lebanon

Abstract: The national curriculum in Lebanon has remained unchanged since 1997. Not only is the 1975-1990 civil war a highly sensitive historical event, but the national education system has made... Read More ›

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/9-2021-4/civil-war-lebanon-2/

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Building Skills for Life Through Controversial Events

Abstract: Eleni Zanou from Cyprus presents her motivations for teaching history ‘unconventionally’. She explains that using the one and only textbook entails many risks – such as the lack of... Read More ›

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/9-2021-4/cyprus-controversial-school-history/

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Creating an Arab Lens to Learning World History

Abstract: Jordanian teachers in private schools are in most cases teaching historical content seen as significant by the writers of these international curricula. As a result of this unusual situation,... Read More ›

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/9-2021-4/arab-perspective-history-curriculum/

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Agencies of Public History: School Teachers

Teachers from Jordan, Cyprus, Lebanon and Turkey share the risks they took in the pedagogies they pioneered and histories they unveiled.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/9-2021-4/agencies-public-history-teachers/

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