Can History Succeed at School? Problems of Knowledge in the Australian History Curriculum

Autor/in	Gilbert, Rob
Titel	Can History Succeed at School? Problems of Knowledge in the Australian History Curriculum
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Education, 55 (2011) 3, S.245-258 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0004-9441
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Curriculum Development; Curriculum Design; National Curriculum; Educational Policy; Politics of Education; History Instruction; Historical Interpretation; Educational Objectives; Problems; Historiography; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Lehrplangestaltung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Educational policy; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Historische Interpretation; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Problemsituation; Geschichtsschreibung; Australien
Abstract	Successful curriculum development in any school subject requires a clear and established set of elements: agreed and widely appreciated goals; effective criteria for the selection of important knowledge content; and an explicit and well-integrated explanatory base for authentic problem-solving related to the subject goals. The article shows that the history discipline faces particular challenges in meeting these requirements. The diversity of approaches to history complicates the task of establishing consensus around a clear set of goals. Its association in popular discourse with facts and narrative predisposes history to a descriptive approach, and is not helpful in clarifying the foundational ideas on which historical explanation is based. The article considers each of these issues and the extent to which they are resolved in the development of the Australian history curriculum. It concludes that these issues remain a challenge that could put at risk high-quality curriculum outcomes in history. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10