History; Education

This arts-based dissertation explores the stories and silences of the Winston branch of my family in order to consider how families reproduce ideologies, with the focus of this study being white supremacy and to lesser extents capitalism and patriarchy. In social studies educati…

How we remember, narrate and teach the past is an inherently political and ethical act. This is especially true when teaching about race and racism within the context of United States history. In this dissertation, I ask: how do young people narrate the durability of racial ineq…

Research on history education has increasingly paid attention over the past decades to making school history more relevant for students. As part of this ongoing conversation, the notion of historical consciousness has gained significance and is generally regarded as a construct …

This study investigated what is remembered about social studies education, how memories can be made useful in current classrooms, and how this knowledge can inform a social studies-to-be imagining future memories. Special attention was paid as well to issues of social justice an…

This study sought to understand how history teachers engage digitally native high school students in the history curriculum. There have been significant changes in the teaching of history over the past two decades, yet there is a lack of consensus as to what the purpose of histo…

This study examined the representation of national and religious dimensions of Iranian history and identity in Iranian middle school history textbooks. Furthermore, through a qualitative case study in a school in the capital city of Tehran, teachers' use of textbooks in classroo…

What are the goals of history education? What do we want students of history to be able to do? This project defends a normative theory of history education, that is, a theory of historical inquiry that is both adequate to actual historiographical and educational practice and tha…

“‘To Make History the Living Force’: The Professionalization of Public History, 1880- 2000” challenges how we often distinguish public history education from “traditional” history education and shows how debates about public history teaching reveal a larger and more dynamic stor…

This study concerns itself with the moral economy of history education, or a system of dissemination of values and moral sentiments within a national community through the teaching of history in schools. This system prescribes which emotions are the most appropriate to feel rega…

Bu çalışmanın amacı, yakın tarihimizin tartışmalı aktörlerinden biri olan Sultan II. Abdülhamit'in Türkiye Cumhuriyeti tarih ders kitaplarındaki imajını ortaya koymak ve bu imajın zaman içerisinde bir değişime uğrayıp-uğramadığını saptamaktır. Bu çerçevede, cumhuriyetin kuruluşu…