Pupils and School History in France and Switzerland

Autor/inn/en	Audigier, Francois; Fink, Nadine
Titel	Pupils and School History in France and Switzerland
Quelle	In: Education 3-13, 38 (2010) 3, S.329-339 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4279
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; History Instruction; Teaching Methods; Questionnaires; Interviews; Educational Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Comparative Education; Attitude Change; Elementary Secondary Education; Student Experience; France; Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Fragebogen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Schülerverhalten; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Studienerfahrung; Frankreich; Schweiz
Abstract	This paper describes five studies, based on questionnaires and interviews with pupils in primary and lower secondary schools, in France and in Switzerland, over the past two decades. It explores the ways in which pupils' attitudes to history change during the transition between primary and secondary school, and investigates pupils' views about the importance of history education, the teaching approaches they experience, and their perceptions of the reasons for learning history. Findings of the studies suggest that pupils are generally taught in a didactic way, while they prefer visits and debates, and that while some students feel that history is relevant to them others do not, and many pupils do not think learning history has any utility. Older students may see knowledge of history as a cultural asset but are more interested in personal links with the past rather than history as a study of changing groups and societies. Students do not appreciate the skills of thinking, reflection, and judgement, which should be integral to the processes of historical enquiry. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10