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Professor Dr. Keith Barton of the Universty of Indiana, expert on the Advisory Panel for the EUROCLIO research project, "What's The Impact? Measuring transformation resulting from pioneering reform initiatives in history education," has co-authored a study on the theory, method and context of researching history education with Linda S. Levstik.
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Researching History Education combines a selection of Linda Levstik’s and Keith Barton’s previous work on teaching and learning history with their reflections on the process of research. These studies address students’ ideas about time, evidence, significance, and agency, as well as classroom contexts of history education and broader social influences on students’ and teacher’s thinking. These pieces—widely cited in history and social studies education and typically required reading for students in the area—were chosen to illustrate major themes in the authors’ own work and trends in recent research on history education. In a series of new chapters written especially for this volume, the authors introduce and reflect on their empirical studies and address three issues suggested in the title of the volume: theory, method, and context.
"The authors’ research is well known and among the most important American works being done on how children learn history. It is thus a great idea to gather this pivotal research in one place. The volume offers a new perspective through the authors’ reflections on the research process. It is profound without pomposity, ideal for the intended audience; the tone is just right. There really isn’t another book that does what this one does."
Stephen J. Thornton, University of South Florida
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 For the last twenty years Dr. Yosanne Vella has been researching history pedagogy in the local and foreign scene investigating the teaching of history in both primary and secondary levels. She has presented her work at various local and international conferences as well in academic journals abroad. Dr Vella has now felt the need to collect these papers in one book making them easily accessible for local history teacher practitioners, student teachers and researchers involved in history teaching. The book looks into the philosophy behind effective history teaching, learning theories and children’s understanding in history and the theories influencing history teaching outside the classroom. In Search of Meaningful History Teaching-A collection of research work on the teaching of History is another book published by the History Teachers’ Association. For more information about the book contact
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"How to Study a Nation" is a book presenting nine different studies on ethnicity and nationalism. Among the studies, a chapter form the dissertation "The Ethnification of Political Systems in Central Europe: The Case of the Hungarian Minority in the Slovak Republic" by Dagmar Kusa, EUROCLIO Project Coordinator, has also been included. The Presentation of the book took place on June 15th 2009 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Download the poster |
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 In his latest and most important book "Wereldkoers" Adriaan van der Staay has collected his main essays and has included new ones on current issues related to Europe. Typical of Van der Staay are the long lines and his wide vision as well as his conviction that history is the basis for the future. Moreover, Adrian van der Staay is strongly opposed to nostalgia and in favor of the fact that everyone is able to make his own destiny. Therefore, his analysis of current issues is both cautious and visionary. The collection begins with three arguments for cultural growth, the imagination of the emotion and cultural preservation followed by new essays about Europe. “Wereldkoers” closes with a criticism of cultural conservatism, and offers a cosmopolitan vision of the migration of people and culture. Adriaan van der Staay was the Director of the Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands, Professor of Cultural Politics and Director of the Rotterdam Art Foundation. Moreover, he was coordinator of the first World Culture Report of the UNESCO. Recently he helped to give shape to the Prince Claus Fond Fund for Culture and Development. For more information click here |
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 National history canons and their role in history education is a subject of growing concern and the question whether they should or not still be the foundation of the teaching of history has raised and keeps on raising major debates. Linda Symcox from California State University and Arie Wilschut from Amsterdam University of Professional Education have edited the book entitled “National History Standards – The problem of the Canon and the Future of History”, where issues about the function of national canons and the need for today’s students and tomorrow’s citizens of the world to think in global terms, but also to act at the same time as citizens of a nation-state sharing a common past and culture, are discussed. This volume in International Review of History Education consists of a collection of interesting articles, among which you will also find the article by Joke van der Leeuw-Roord, EUROCLIO Executive Director, under the title “Yearning for Yesterday: Efforts of History Professionals in Europe at Designing Meaningful and Effective School History Curricula”. You can contact
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