scholarly journals Cultivating historical consciousness in the history classroom: Uncovering the subtleties of student meaning making with the help of found poetry

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Popa
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
History Education ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Classroom Context ◽  
Student Work ◽  
School History ◽  
Student Meaning ◽  
Found Poetry ◽  
Second World

This article explores student meaning making in a Grade 11 US history unit on the Second World War. The 10-lesson unit was designed as an experiment that aimed to apply an instructional model of historical consciousness to a classroom context. Although the notion of historical consciousness has gained significant interest in the field of history education, translating it into educational practice remains a challenge. In this study, it refers to a disposition to make meaning of the past for oneself, which is manifested in three meaning-making abilities and processes (Boix Mansilla and Gardner, 2007; Nordgren and Johansson, 2015; Rüsen, 2004). To study the manifestation of historical consciousness in the learning process during this unit, I employed found poetry on collected classroom transcripts and observations, as well as student work. I turned to this qualitative, arts-informed method when I realised the analytic methods that I had employed so far failed to capture important subtleties of students’ historical consciousness emerging from the data. In this paper, I present and discuss the results of my analysis, offer a rationale for using found poetry in history education research and reflect on the need for relevant and meaningful school history.

scholarly journals “Historical Falsification” as a Master Trope in the Official Discourse on History Education in Putin’s Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-135
Author(s):  
Julie Fedor
Keyword(s):  
History Education ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Second World War ◽  
State Control ◽  
World War ◽  
History Teachers ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Second World ◽  
Scholarly Attention

This article explores a key claim underpinning Russian official memory politics, namely, the notion that Russia’s past (and especially the role it played in the Second World War) is the object of a campaign of “historical falsification” aimed at, among other things, undermining Russian sovereignty, especially by distorting young people’s historical consciousness. Although “historical falsification” is an important keyword in the Kremlin’s discourse, it has received little scholarly attention. Via an analysis of official rhetoric and methodological literature aimed at history teachers, I investigate the ideological functions performed by the concept of “historical falsification.” I show how it serves to reinforce a conspiratorial vision of Russia as a nation under siege, while simultaneously justifying the drive toward greater state control over history education.

scholarly journals College Student Meaning Making and Interest Maintenance During COVID-19: From Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) to Science Learning Being Off-Campus and Online

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cong Wang ◽  
Melanie Bauer ◽  
Alita R. Burmeister ◽  
David I. Hanauer ◽  
Mark J. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Situational Interest ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Undergraduate Research Experiences ◽  
Student Meaning ◽  
Based Instruction

In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 the national landscape of higher education changed quickly and dramatically to move “online” in the Spring semester of 2020. While distressing to both faculty and students, it presents a unique opportunity to explore how students responded to this unexpected and challenging learning situation. In four undergraduate STEM courses that incorporated course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs)—which are often focused on discovery learning and laboratory research—we had an existing study in progress to track students' interest development at five time points over the Spring 2020 semester. Via this ongoing study we were able to investigate how students stay engaged in their college science courses when facing unexpected challenges and obstacles to their learning. Longitudinal survey data from 41 students in these CURE courses demonstrated that students' situational interest dropped significantly when their CURE courses unexpectedly shifted from hands-on, discovery-based, and laboratory-based instruction to online instruction. Although we observed a dramatic decline in student interest in general after the CURE courses moved fully online, the decline rates varied across students. Students who were able to make meaningful connections between the learning activities and their personal or career goals were more likely to maintain a higher level of interest in the course. Implications for practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Identifying Level of Historical Consciousness of College Students of History Education in Terms of Ethnicity, Especially Javanese and Minangkabau

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aisiah Aisiah ◽  
Sumarno Sumarno
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
History Education ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
State University ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Finding Meaning ◽  
Education College ◽  
Historical Research Methods

The purpose of this study was to identify level of historical consciousness of college students in Indonesia in terms of ethnic groups, particularly Javanese and Minangkabau ethnics. Historical consciousness is measured by four aspects, namely knowledge of historical events, understanding of historical research methods, finding meaning of historical events and viewing historical usefulness. Subjects were Javanese college students, represented by history education college students of State University of Yogyakarta and Minangkabau college students represented by history education college students of Padang State University. The research data were collected through historical consciousness test. Test instruments were formulated in the form of multiple choice questions associative consisting of knowledge about historical events, understanding of historical research methods, finding meaning of historical events and viewing usefulness of history. The data were analyzed by the percentage of the average scores level of historical consciousness on both ethnics group of college students. Overall, result analysis showed that percentage score of historical consciousness of Javanese college students is 42% higher than college student of Minangkabau i.e. 39%. It means that the level of historical consciousness of Javanese college students higher than Minangkabau college students.

scholarly journals The forgotten Eastern Front: dealing with the social and archaeological legacies of the Battle of the Rawka and Bzura Rivers (1914–1915), central Poland

Antiquity ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Anna I. Zalewska ◽  
Grzegorz Kiarszys
Keyword(s):  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Central Poland ◽  
Eastern Front ◽  
The Social ◽  
Trench Warfare ◽  
Heritage Policy ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

While the Western Front of the Great (or First World) War is deeply engrained in the European historical consciousness, memories of the Eastern Front are less prominent. Here, events have been repressed, obscured by the subsequent experience of the Second World War and by heritage policy in the region. The authors present the results of archaeological investigations of a battlefield in central Poland, where static trench warfare was fought between December 1914 and July 1915. A unique landscape palimpsest was formed, the present neglected state of which is a material expression of contemporary attitudes to the legacy of the forgotten Eastern Front. The study illustrates the wider intersection of warfare, identity and memory.

Vom Nachkrieg zum Vorkrieg

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World

The historical consciousness of the peoples of Europe is still being shaped by their own national histories. The question of the political order that prevailed during the interwar years has remained a perennial issue among historians. The dominant hallmark of this prelude to the Second World War was the rise of dictatorships and the question of whether we can characterise this period as one of uninterrupted crisis. This collection of studies examines the quest for a new European order and the interconnections between domestic and foreign policy during the 1920s and 1930s. It collates different national perspectives in a single volume and asks searching questions about the consequences of the decisions made during the period under examination. With contributions by Dragan Bakić, Maciej Górny, Kurt Hager, János Hóvári, Georg Kastner, Miklos Lojko, Markus Meckel, Ulrich Schlie, Christian Schmidt, Thomas Weber and Werner Weidenfeld.

Narrating the Second World War

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-57
Author(s):  
Lina Klymenko
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
History Textbook ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
School History ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Second World

This article explores the theoretical understanding of the relation between school history textbooks and the state-led construction of national identity. It does this by conceptualizing a history textbook as an assembly of historical narratives that provide young readers with an opportunity to identify with the national community in which they live. By focusing on narrative techniques, including plot, concepts of time and space, and the categorization of characters as in- and out-groups, this article shows how narratives of the Second World War in Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian textbooks contribute to nation-building.

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