History Education as Content, Methods or Orientation?: A Study of Curriculum Prescriptions, Teacher-made Tasks and Student Strategies

by David Rosenlund

Overview

This study examines the aspects included in history education by way of curricula and teacher-made tasks. It analyses how students combine historical content, methods and orientation. The results show differences between the curricula and tests, and they also provide insight into what strategies students use when working with sources

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631676721
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	07/29/2016
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Rosenlund is a Researcher and Test Developer at the Faculty of Education and Society at Malmö University in Sweden. His main research interest concerns history education in general, with a focus on teacher and student strategies, epistemology and the history curriculum in particular.

Table of Contents

History education – Aspects of historical knowledge, historical methods and temporal orientation – Curricula texts – Teacher-made tasks – Strategies used by students when they combine the three aspects while working with historical sources