What Should School History Be? Reflections on the aims of school history and Manifesto per la Didattica della Storia

This paper begins by elaborating arguments about the aims that history education should serve and by discussing practical arrangements necessary to support those aims. A case is made for history education informed by strong epistemic and disciplinary understandings and by developed understandings of...

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Main Author: Arthur Chapman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2020-07-01
Series:Didattica della storia
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Online Access:https://dsrivista.unibo.it/article/view/11017
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description This paper begins by elaborating arguments about the aims that history education should serve and by discussing practical arrangements necessary to support those aims. A case is made for history education informed by strong epistemic and disciplinary understandings and by developed understandings of historical narrative and the uses of the past. This optic is then applied to the evaluation of Centro Internazionale di Didattica della Storia e del Patrimonio (DiPaSt)’s Manifesto per la Didattica della Storia.
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spelling doaj.art-29a6823cb1c34b3eb7e87d79d6b9b1212022-12-21T23:09:59ZengUniversity of BolognaDidattica della storia2704-82172020-07-0121S526210.6092/issn.2704-8217/110179385What Should School History Be? Reflections on the aims of school history and Manifesto per la Didattica della StoriaArthur ChapmanThis paper begins by elaborating arguments about the aims that history education should serve and by discussing practical arrangements necessary to support those aims. A case is made for history education informed by strong epistemic and disciplinary understandings and by developed understandings of historical narrative and the uses of the past. This optic is then applied to the evaluation of Centro Internazionale di Didattica della Storia e del Patrimonio (DiPaSt)’s Manifesto per la Didattica della Storia.https://dsrivista.unibo.it/article/view/11017history educationhistorical epistemologyhistorical narrativesuses of past
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What Should School History Be? Reflections on the aims of school history and Manifesto per la Didattica della Storia
Didattica della storia
history education
historical epistemology
historical narratives
uses of past
title What Should School History Be? Reflections on the aims of school history and Manifesto per la Didattica della Storia
title_full What Should School History Be? Reflections on the aims of school history and Manifesto per la Didattica della Storia
title_fullStr What Should School History Be? Reflections on the aims of school history and Manifesto per la Didattica della Storia
title_full_unstemmed What Should School History Be? Reflections on the aims of school history and Manifesto per la Didattica della Storia
title_short What Should School History Be? Reflections on the aims of school history and Manifesto per la Didattica della Storia
title_sort what should school history be reflections on the aims of school history and manifesto per la didattica della storia
topic history education
historical epistemology
historical narratives
uses of past
url https://dsrivista.unibo.it/article/view/11017
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