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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…
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Historiana: Source collection Highlights
Feeling overwhelmed by Historiana? Is there a wealth of material but you’re not sure where to begin? Don’t worry! Here, I’ll introduce three easy ways to get started with Historiana. You can dive right in without logging in or extensive learning. And once you get started, you’ll discover the multitude of opportunities Historiana offers. We…
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Historiana and the teaching of historical thinking skills
As we all know, teaching history involves much more than just telling ‘a story’. Even telling a story is not just that. It starts with the choice of language we use, what we include and leave out, the perspective we use when presenting events, and what narrative approach we choose: do we start from the…
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Europeans were migrants too!
Of course Europeans often still ARE migrants, but this blogpost is about a period in the past. Let me introduce you to the Historiana narrative European Migration to the USA. The narrative focuses on migration to the USA from Europe between the years 1845-1945. It has sections about: As a teacher you might want to…