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Examining Personal Epistemology in the Teaching and Learning of History

Mon, April 16, 10:35am to 12:05pm, New York Marriott Marquis, Floor: Fifth Floor, Belasco

Session Type: Symposium

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History teaching can help learners appreciate how differing historical narratives arise and can be negotiated. This symposium gathers scholars from Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland to address theoretical, methodological and pedagogical issues arising from the study of personal epistemology in history teaching and learning. Two papers focus on teachers’ epistemological beliefs and their relationship to their pedagogical beliefs and the teaching of sensitive topics. The third paper describes an intervention study that examines the potential of interviews with eyewitnesses to enrich students’ epistemological awareness in history. The last paper examines the accidentally educative nature of a survey designed to gauge secondary students’ ideas about why historical accounts differ. Together, the participants sketch the outlines of a promising research agenda.

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