Teaching the Discipline of History in an Age of Standards
This book discusses the discipline standards of History in Australian universities in order to help historians understand the Threshold Learning Outcomes and to assist in their practical application. It is divided into two sections: The first offers a sch
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Teaching the Discipline of History in an Age of Standards
Teaching the Discipline of History in an Age of Standards
Jennifer Clark Adele Nye •
Editors
Teaching the Discipline of History in an Age of Standards
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Editors Jennifer Clark The University of Adelaide Adelaide, SA Australia
Adele Nye School of Education University of New England Armidale, NSW Australia
ISBN 978-981-13-0046-2 ISBN 978-981-13-0047-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0047-9
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Don’t rail against the limits … Discover them, play with them, extend them. —Griffiths quotes Dening, The Art of Time Travel, 2016, p. 123.
Naturally for Andrew and Hannah who have taught me much already. For my parents, Elva and Bill Nye.
Foreword
Into the Fray Imagine this, please, for a new world around the corner —Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Nationalism and the Imagination, pp. 56–7.
History is not a discipline of agreement. Understandings of the past are advanced, unravelled, repositioned and even retracted, leaving us with the sense that being an historian or a history teacher means accepting that the ground is not stable. This makes us a particularly frustrating group of people to deal with if you just want to set things straight for a movie, a news article or a civics framework. In some contexts, this is an admirable virtue, a form of courage that expresses uncomfortable truths to remind people not to forget, silence or even harm others. In others, this is a form of stubbornness that means that we miss th
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