Mapping historians: historians' orientations and historical production
Narrative historians have long exhibited greater or lesser awareness of their own agency as authors, where absolute objectivity is precluded. Indeed, historians' reports of the past include their own orientations or attitudes, which can also be examined in historians' autobiographies. In t...
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Finnish Society for the History of Education
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| description | Narrative historians have long exhibited greater or lesser awareness of their own agency as authors, where absolute objectivity is precluded. Indeed, historians' reports of the past include their own orientations or attitudes, which can also be examined in historians' autobiographies. In this article we present a study in which a questionnaire was used to ask historians about their orientations toward their subject matter. How do historians approach their work as agents and what might this reveal about the nature of historical production? In our model, we have distinguished four criteria, sorted the answers using statistical analysis and weighed the results in the light of our expectations. Indeed, by exploring historians' presuppositions (exemplified in examining historians' autobiographies), historical production can be seen as an institutional process also steered by historians' orientations and agency with important philosophical implications for the integral relationship between historians' public and private roles. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3bd5719bb5794455841ef1604ff68d982022-12-22T03:09:15ZfinFinnish Society for the History of EducationKasvatus & Aika1797-22992011-01-0151Mapping historians: historians' orientations and historical productionLisa MuszynskiJyrki ReunamoNarrative historians have long exhibited greater or lesser awareness of their own agency as authors, where absolute objectivity is precluded. Indeed, historians' reports of the past include their own orientations or attitudes, which can also be examined in historians' autobiographies. In this article we present a study in which a questionnaire was used to ask historians about their orientations toward their subject matter. How do historians approach their work as agents and what might this reveal about the nature of historical production? In our model, we have distinguished four criteria, sorted the answers using statistical analysis and weighed the results in the light of our expectations. Indeed, by exploring historians' presuppositions (exemplified in examining historians' autobiographies), historical production can be seen as an institutional process also steered by historians' orientations and agency with important philosophical implications for the integral relationship between historians' public and private roles.http://www.kasvatus-ja-aika.fi/site/?lan=1&page_id=369historiansmemoirsresearch of historyhistoriographyconception of history |
| spellingShingle | Lisa Muszynski Jyrki Reunamo Mapping historians: historians' orientations and historical production Kasvatus & Aika historians memoirs research of history historiography conception of history |
| title | Mapping historians: historians' orientations and historical production |
| title_full | Mapping historians: historians' orientations and historical production |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Mapping historians: historians' orientations and historical production |
| title_short | Mapping historians: historians' orientations and historical production |
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| topic | historians memoirs research of history historiography conception of history |
| url | http://www.kasvatus-ja-aika.fi/site/?lan=1&page_id=369 |
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