Anna Clark (2008) History’s Children: History Wars in the Classroom. UNSW Press, Sydney, 178 pages
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01/04/2010
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“History’s Children” stems from Anna Clark’s 2004 postdoctoral research into the ways in which Australian students connect with the past, and aims at bringing some classroom perspectives into the public debates about Australian history education. Although the title makes reference to the “History Wars”, there is little evidence of contestation, engagement, passion or intellectual excitement in Clark’s conclusions about what happens in history classrooms. Rather, Clark’s small focus groups with 182 high school students in 34 high schools around Australia indicate that “it got a bit dismal hearing student after student being so dismissive of Australian history” (p. 143). Apart from some enthusiasm for the study of Australians at war, a sort of resigned boredom seems to characterise what students have to say about learning Australian history, despite their acknowledgement that it is important to “know about” it. |
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Australian Association for Research in Education |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/39304/1/BR_Henderson.pdf http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/journal/13384?changeHeader Henderson, Deborah J. (2010) Anna Clark (2008) History’s Children: History Wars in the Classroom. UNSW Press, Sydney, 178 pages. Australian Educational Researcher, 37(1), pp. 149-151. |
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The Australian Educational Researcher It is a condition of publication that authors vest copyright in their articles, including abstracts, in The Australian Educational Researcher. |
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Office of Education Research; Faculty of Education; School of Cultural & Language Studies in Education |
Palavras-Chave | #130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development #130205 Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Economics Business and Management) #210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified #Australian History #history teaching #history curriculum #national history curriculum #history wars |
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