Overview
- Opens up pathways for additional scholarship in a nascent field of research
- Interrogates teachers' epistemic beliefs with a view to improving history education
- Contains a variety of perspectives from a range of international contexts
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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About this book
This edited book explores conceptual as well as empirical approaches to epistemic beliefs that teachers of history might hold. In many parts of the world, history teachers are tasked with both upholding historical national myths and at the same time giving students the tools needed to deconstruct history and think critically. This ambiguity embedded in the combination of reconstruction and deconstruction is a difficult landscape for teachers to navigate. The chapters of this book therefore explore how teachers reason regarding the epistemic nature of history and how this impacts their teaching, interpretation of curricula and relationship to their students. Contributions consider the implications for prospective history teachers and in-service training, challenges to the field and point to ways forward. The book will be of interest to academics and students of history education, as well as practising teachers and museum curators.
This is an open access book.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Epistemology and Context
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Professional Development and Reflections on Applied Epistemologies
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Reflections on Measurements and Instruments
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Henrik Åström Elmersjö is Associate Professor of History and Education in the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Umeå University, Sweden.
Paul Zanazanian is Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teachers and the Epistemology of History
Book Subtitle: .
Editors: Henrik Åström Elmersjö, Paul Zanazanian
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58056-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58055-0Published: 26 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58058-1Due: 27 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-58056-7Published: 25 June 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 376
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Education, Social History, Curriculum Studies, Education, general, Teaching and Teacher Education