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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"history education"”.
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Revolutionizing history education : using augmented reality games to teach histories
… game information in a physical environment-as educational tools. I designed "Reliving the Revolution" as a model for using AR games to teach historic inquiry, decision-making, and critical thinking skills. "Reliving the Revolution" takes place in Lexington, MA, the site of the Battle of …
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Changing the past to build the future : history education in post-Mao China
… with the ways in which the school subject of History has developed over the past quarter century in the People's Republic of China. One of the key objectives of this research has been simply to redress previous neglect of a subject that seems, if public opinion is indicative of a topic's …
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Problematised History Pedagogy as Narrative Research: Self-Fashioning, Dismantled Voices and Reimaginings in History Education
A growing disturbance with history’s identity in the New Zealand schooling curriculum disrupted my educational socialisation (curriculum, professional, academic) and inheritance of educational policy decisions. In turn, this disturbance shaped a critical stance in my research and practitioner work. …
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IMAGINING SPACE: DEVELOPING A CRITICAL GEO-LITERACY WITH MAPS AS PRIMARY SOURCES IN HISTORY EDUCATION
… this scholarship has made very few inroads into history education. In order to develop curriculum using maps to develop critical geo-literacy, I draw on a twin lens of critical carto-geography. In advocating for a more critical literacies approach, I assert that maps ought to be incorporated in …
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Teaching the future's past : history education, identity values and prospects of reconciliation in the Republic of Macedonia
… the constructivist approach to nationalism, mass education systems not only constitute a key marker of modern state-ness, but also perform a crucial function within the nation-building process itself. Namely, state education is the apparatus through which a state’s societal culture is inculcated …
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Teacher participation in curriculum decision making : a study of teachers' opinions on history education at secondary schools in the Cape Peninsula
… the empirical investigation into the teaching of history in South Africa undertaken by the Human Sciences Research Council (1989-1991) have prompted this study. The research undertaken attempts to examine how history teachers' opinions can be collected, interpreted and utilised for curriculum …
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Bringing the schoolhouse to life: Methodologies of living history education demonstrated in a living history program for San Timoteo Schoolhouse, Riverside County, California
This project begins by examining living history, defining its scope, uses, and relationship to other fields. It further defines and articulates a second-person methodology for construction of living history educational projects, grounding it in historical, educational, and dramatic theory.
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Bringing the schoolhouse to life: Methodologies of living history education demonstrated in a living history program for San Timoteo Schoolhouse, Riverside County, California
This project begins by examining living history, defining its scope, uses, and relationship to other fields. It further defines and articulates a second-person methodology for construction of living history educational projects, grounding it in historical, educational, and dramatic theory.
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Exploring History Education in Primary Schools and its Impact on Students’ Attitudes Toward Other Ethnic Groups in Divided Communities of Bosnia and Herzegovina
… exploring the intricate relationship between history education and students' attitudes toward ethnic communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), this research uncovers a complex narrative that challenges conventional expectations. Through a meticulous mixed-methods approach, the study …
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The empathy imperative : primary narratives in South African history teaching
… happening again. International literature on history education and memory studies questions this ‘never again’ imperative, pointing out that remembrance does not necessarily lead to redemption. The aim of this research is to conduct a similar exercise by investigating the following paradox …
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Knowing History: A Study of the Construction and Implementation of Historical Knowledge from Theory to Practice
… attempts throughout the 20th century to shift history curriculum towards disciplinary learning, the lack of lasting reform is an enduring problem in history education. My dissertation explores this problem in three studies which examine the construction and implementation of historical …
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Designing Cultural Heritage Experiences for Head-Worn Augmented Reality
History education is important, as it provides context for current events today. Cultural heritage sites, such as historic buildings, ruins, or archaeological digs can provide a glimpse into the past. The use of different technologies, including augmented and virtual reality, to teach history has …
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The trajectory of the shifts in academic and civic identity in South African and English secondary school History National Curriculums across two key reform moments
… and civic identities that four different history curriculums would seek to produce. The curriculum documents chosen are two South African (Curriculum 2005 [1997] and the Curriculum and Policy Statement [2011]) and two English (the first national curriculum [1991] and the most recent [2014] …
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Building the 'Sri Lankan nation' through education: The identity politics of teaching history in a multicultural post-war society
… objective of promoting reconciliation through education, this thesis strives to unpack the first national goal of education set out by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Education, which involves nation building and the establishment of a Sri Lankan identity through the promotion of social cohesion and …
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Turmoil, Tirades and Transformation: The Wars for the National History Standards 1991-2004
… of consensus, and the impact of the National History Standards Project (NHSP) on local policies and curricula in history education. The influence of the voluntary national history standards movement is chronicled with the local development of social science standards-based curricula with the …
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A história local e seu lugar na história: histórias ensinadas em Ceará-Mirim
This Researchis about history education and is directed toward the understanding of teacher practices in schools of the basic education in Ceará-Mirim, a city located in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. Its purpose is to understand the approaching forms of local history in 5ª to 8ª grade …
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The development of a new history curriculum for the secondary level in South Africa : considerations related to the possible inclusion of themes drawn from Unity Movement history
… content and perspectives provided in popular history traditions as a "necessary condition" for the development of a new history for secondary school in South Africa. In arguing for this recognition, research on the Unity Movement historical and dialectical materialist historiographical …
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The Function of Mythology and Religion in Ancient Greek Society.
… religion are the eight functions of mythology: history, education, explanation - both of the natural world and the culture of each society, legality, genesis, what happens after death, and entertainment; as well as the two function of religion: civic and spiritual. In the first chapter, in order …
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The application of drama in education methodology to the teaching of history to Stds. 6 and 7 in white secondary schools in South Africa
CHAPTER 1 History Teaching in South Africa. Towards identifying some problems of History teaching in South Africa and suggesting in general terms a methodology to help solve the problems. CHAPTER 2 Education. Theatre and Drama. A. Towards the author's definition of child-centred education, based on …
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