A comprehensive review of the research literature on history education with contributions from international experts
The Wiley International Handbook of History Teaching and Learning draws on contributions from an international panel of experts. Their writings explore the growth the field has experienced in the past three decades and offer observations on challenges and opportunities for the future. The contributors represent a wide range of pioneering, established, and promising new scholars with diverse perspectives on history education.
Comprehensive in scope, the contributions cover major themes and issues in history education including: policy, research, and societal contexts; conceptual constructs of history education; ideologies, identities, and group experiences in history education; practices and learning; historical literacies: texts, media, and social spaces; and consensus and dissent. This vital resource:
- Contains original writings by more than 40 scholars from seven countries
- Identifies major themes and issues shaping history education today
- Highlights history education as a distinct field of scholarly inquiry and academic practice
- Presents an authoritative survey of where the field has been and offers a view of what the future may hold
Written for scholars and students of education as well as history teachers with an interest in the current issues in their field, The Wiley International Handbook of History Teaching and Learning is a comprehensive handbook that explores the increasingly global field of history education as it has evolved to the present day.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Foreword xiii
Peter Seixas
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: History Education in (and for) a Changing World 1
Scott Alan Metzger and Lauren McArthur Harris
Section I Policy, Research, and Societal Contexts of History Education 11
1 History Curriculum, Standards, and Assessment Policies and Politics: U.S. Experiences 13
Tim Keirn
2 History Education Research and Practice: An International Perspective 37
Mark Baildon and Suhaimi Afandi
3 Research Methodologies in History Education 61
Terrie Epstein and Cinthia S. Salinas
4 Narratives of Black History in Textbooks: Canada and the United States 93
LaGarrett J. King and Crystal Simmons
Section II Conceptual Constructs of History Education 117
5 Historical Thinking: Definitions and Educational Applications 119
Stéphane Lévesque and Penney Clark
6 Historical Reasoning: Conceptualizations and Educational Applications 149
Carla van Boxtel and Jannet van Drie
7 Historical Consciousness: Conceptualizations and Educational Applications 177
Anna Clark and Maria Grever
8 Historical Empathy: Perspectives and Responding to the Past 203
Jason L. Endacott and Sarah Brooks
9 Historical Agency: Stories of Choice, Action, and Social Change 227
Kent den Heyer
10 Global and World History Education 253
Brian Girard and Lauren McArthur Harris
Section III Ideologies, Identities, and Group Experiences in History Education 281
11 Critical Theory and History Education 283
Avner Segall, Brenda M. Trofanenko, and Adam J. Schmitt
12 National, Ethnic, and Indigenous Identities and Perspectives in History Education 311
Carla L. Peck
13 Gender and Sexuality in History Education 335
Margaret Smith Crocco
14 “Difficult Knowledge” and the Holocaust in History Education 365
Sara A. Levy and Maia Sheppard
Section IV History Education: Practices and Learning 389
15 History Teacher Preparation and Professional Development 391
Stephanie van Hover and David Hicks
16 Teaching Practices in History Education 419
S. G. Grant
17 Assessment of Learning in History Education: Past, Present, and Possible Futures 449
Denis Shemilt
18 Reconceptualizing History for Early Childhood Through Early Adolescence 473
Linda S. Levstik and Stephen J. Thornton
19 Teaching Controversial Historical Issues 503
Tsafrir Goldberg and Geerte M. Savenije
Section V Historical Literacies: Texts, Media, and Social Spaces 527
20 Reading in History Education: Text, Sources, and Evidence 529
Abby Reisman and Sarah McGrew
21 Writing and Argumentation in History Education 551
Jeffery D. Nokes and Susan De La Paz
22 Film Media in History Teaching and Learning 579
Richard J. Paxton and Alan S. Marcus
23 Digital Simulations and Games in History Education 603
Cory Wright‐Maley, John K. Lee, and Adam Friedman
24 Learning History Beyond School: Museums, Public Sites, and Informal Education 631
Jeremy D. Stoddard
Index 657
