Cooperate, Deconstruct, Design

When in 2016 Battlefield 1 was released, many voices in Italy asked to recall the game, partially set on the Italian front during WW1

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/11-2023-3/cooperate-deconstruct-design/

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Historical Empathy: Ethical and Culturally Responsive Teaching

This article explores how we deal with controversial topics, traumatic pasts, and uncomfortable truths about world history.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/11-2023-1/historical-empathy/

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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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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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Digital Public History in Teaching-Learning Contexts

Within a few days of Corona-led change, “online learning” moved further into the spotlight of public debates and of teaching history.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/8-2020-4/teaching-history-corona/

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What’s History For?

Questions on the purpose of history and history traditions are far from new, but they reach us as educators with greater force then ever. Defining the purpose of any school subject is a crucial task.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-21/history-traditions/

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What Influences Public History the Most

It is the history-related beliefs of teachers that make the difference. The communication of history in public as well is less influenced by scientific findings than by the beliefs of the people involved.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-19/historical-beliefs/

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Normative Overload: What About Empirical Validity?

Currently, German history didactics is focusing on narrative competence. The resultant normative overload, is not unproblematic – to say the least.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-15/normative-overload/

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Understanding Empire in the 21st Century

People should have some understanding of what empires are, and what effect they have. What questions are worth asking about the concept of Empire at this point in the 21st century?

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-13/understanding-empires/

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Knowledge Structures and School History

Basil Bernstein's two modalities of knowledge as “hierarchical” and “horizontal” are useful to help interpret the nature of historical knowledge in schools and may still have practical relevance.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-13/knowledge-structures/

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