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Teaching with Digital Heritage in Challenging Times
Modern technology and digital tools have become essential in today’s classrooms, aligning with how students learn through direct experience, interaction, and digital environments. Traditional lecture-based teaching is replaced by methods that encourage critical thinking, contextual understanding, and active democratic participation. Tangible heritage is no longer just a subject of historical study, it becomes a tool…
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Teaching Gender Equality through Public Monuments: Using the Monument(al) Challenges Toolkit and Europeana’s Sources to Explore Representation and Memory in the Classroom
If you were to count the statues in your local town, village, or city, how many would you find that represent women? Despite women making up more than half of Europe’s population, most of the statues you’ll come across commemorate the lives and achievements of men. Even when women do appear in public art, they…
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Using Photographs in the History Classroom
Photographs are a valuable way to bring history to life for students. Seeing exact reproductions of faces and places from the past can deepen students’ sense of what life may have been like in times past. This supports what Michael Hill refers to as ‘world building’: students’ ability to develop sufficient contextual knowledge and understanding…
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The undisciplined side of history and how to use it to strengthen historical reasoning
Students encounter the past in a myriad of ways outside of the history classroom: family (hi)stories, commemorations, cinematic movies, TV programmes, social media, comic books, video games, you name it. We might call the approach in the classroom, based on academic methodology, ‘disciplined history’. The non-academic approaches could then be categorized as ‘undisciplined’. Disciplined and undisciplined histories…
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Teaching Climate Change with Historiana
World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5. Although many schools are either in exam season or summer vacation, this particular world day gave me the motive for the following post. Moreover, as climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, affecting ecosystems, economies, and societies globally the issue of the…