History and its educational relevance for overcoming tensions in current times

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History and its educational relevance for overcoming tensions in current times

Veranstalter
Historical Thinking, Culture, and Education (HTCE)
PLZ
5000
Ort
Aarau
Land
Switzerland
Findet statt
Digital
Vom - Bis
21.05.2024 - 02.07.2024
Website
https://eterna.unibas.ch/htce/lectures
Von
Julia Thyroff, Zentrum politische Bildung und Geschichtsdidaktik, Pädagogische Hochschule der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz

In our HTCE lecturers’ series, we provide a space to discuss theoretical approaches and recent empirical findings presented by internationally renowned experts.

History and its educational relevance for overcoming tensions in current times

Despite numerous studies detailing history’s workings from non-disciplinary perspectives, as seen with research on memory, historical culture, and non-Western approaches to sense creation, modernist views of what history is and how it functions still seem to dominate in the field of education. Because of its application of the historical method as a scientific and rational way of constructing knowledge, history from a disciplinary angle is seen as the form of knowledge creation regarding the past that can best explain “how things actually were”. In educational contexts, such an understanding of history is often perceived as foundational for allowing people to engage and orient themselves in life, giving them the necessary agency to tackle the many social and political problems that they may face. In our contested times, with such life challenges as climate change, increasing frictions between contrasting knowledge systems and ideologies, and the ever-present need of making better room for marginalized peoples in our imperfect societal structures, the question we ask is whether history, understood primarily as a scientific, modernist, and methodological approach to knowledge creation, is still a relevant model for addressing the contemporary needs of our complex world.

In our HTCE lecturers’ series, we provide a space to discuss this question based on theoretical approaches and recent empirical findings presented by internationally renowned experts. We also invite the audience to contribute and interact with our presenters in the conversations that emerge. HTCE lectures are open to the public. They are aimed at experts, scholars, students, teachers and other stakeholders from all regions of the world who are interested in current issues in history education.

Programm

Tuesday, 21st May, 8 pm, Central European Summer Time (CEST) = 3 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) = 5 am Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST):

Managing contested heritage: History wars in museums of national unity
Samaila Suleiman (Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria) & Rhoda Nanre Nafziger (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

Tuesday, May 28th, 8 pm (CEST):

Voicing histories: student voice in history teacher education to build pedagogies around marginalized voices and narratives in the school curriculum
Sarah Godswell (Wits School of Education, Johannesburg, South Africa)

Tuesday, June 4th, 9 pm (CEST) = June 5th, 6 am (AEST):

East Asian perspectives on historiography and history education?
Yeow-Tong Chia (The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)

Tuesday, June 11th, 8 pm (CEST):

Teaching to counter terrorism (TerInfo): A historicizing intervention in times of crisis and disruption
Bjorn Wansink (Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands)

Tuesday, June 18th, 9 pm (CEST) = June 19th, 6 am (AEST):

What do teachers consider as the purposes of history teaching?
Gideon Boadu (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia) & Razak Dwomoh (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA)

Tuesday, June 25th, 8 pm (CEST):

Are we all sophists now? A curricular reading of history education
Kent den Heyer (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

Tuesday, July 2nd, 8 pm (CEST):

Historical thinking for contemporary issues: Curriculum examples
Caitriona Ni Cassaithe (Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland), Keith Barton (Indiana Univerity Bloomington, Bloomington, USA), & Li-Ching Ho (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA)

Download Program and Abstracts as PDF:
https://eterna.unibas.ch/htce/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/15

Join us on Zoom: https://fhnw.zoom.us/j/61846989109?pwd=MmNRaUU1ckQzWUFCc01mdXpCbUtBdz09

Short-term announcements will be published here:
https://eterna.unibas.ch/htce/lectures

Lecture organized by Paul Zanazanian (McGill University, Canada) and Martin Nitsche (FHNW School of Education, Switzerland), co-editors of the journal Historical Thinking, Culture, and Education (HTCE)

Kontakt

Dr. Paul Zanazanian, paul.zanazanian@mcgill.ca
Dr. Martin Nitsche, martin.nitsche@fhnw.ch

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