(Pre-)Scientific Information Retrieval and Wikipedia

Search engines often used for (pre)scientific information retrieval. Wikipedia is a common encyclopedia with more or less suitable articles. Whoever teaches students should emphasize to check such sources carefully.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-26/information-retrieval/

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The Elements of Primary School History

How does one provide an easily accessible description of history for the primary school (primary school history) that non-specialist teachers can understand and adopt? This diagrammatic solution was developed after...

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-25/primary-school-history/

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The Digital Archive: An In-school Place of Learning

Digitisation projects in the humanities have democratised access to sources in recent years. Museums, libraries and archives place their holdings of texts, films and images on the scanner...

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-22/digital-archive-school/

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Public History in Schools? Why and How?

Teenagers encounter history outside schools in varied forms and related to a multitude of topics. But teaching with representations of the past that are not academic ideas, is largely absent from guidelines for history teaching.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-19/public-history-in-schools/

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Schools Facing Public History

The public uses of history compete with school teaching from a position of strength, and therefore they must become part of school history curricula in order to give pupils the tools to critically evaluate them.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-16/schools-facing-public-history/

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Seeing the “Big Picture” in Canadian History

To pass judgement on the 'progress' or 'decline' of a society over time, a big-picture perspective on history is needed. These big-picture frameworks are also important for history teaching.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-8/are-things-getting-better-or-worse-seeing-the-big-picture-in-canadian-history1/

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Make It Strange — History as an Enigma, not a Mirror

History educators insist on the power and critical importance of knowing history and thinking historically about our collective pasts. Should history education display more awareness of its own past?

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-37/make-it-strange-history-as-an-enigma-not-a-mirror/

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Teaching History Despite Banal Nationalism

The current growth of nationalism is one of the greatest challenges in terms of history teaching today. Research confirms the influence of deeply-rooted nationalistic ways of thinking.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-34/teaching-history-despite-banal-nationalism/

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The New Turkish History Curriculum

The new Turkish history curriculum, issued in 2017, has brought some innovations, but it still contains some of the deficiencies of the old curriculum. It does not adequately address international history...

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-33/the-new-turkish-history-curriculum/

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Wissen2go – Teacher-Centered Instruction on YouTube

On YouTube's Wissen2go channel, a journalist explains history and politics to half a million followers. The Russian Revolution is in high range of popularity. Why are there so many viewers and what does this say about teaching history?

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-25/wissen2go-teacher-centered-instruction-on-youtube/

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