Intercultural Historical Inquiries: Design Principles and Models

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Eleven
  In Roundtable Session: Encountering Historical Inquiry Through Race and Culture (Table 14)

Abstract

This paper proposes design principles for intercultural historical inquiries (IHI), synthesized from a three-year research project. It explains how inquiry (C3 framework) as a teaching method can be used to develop intercultural competences, addressing both criticisms of the method for being too instrumental and its potential when it incorporates contemporary relevance. We identified three ‘shifts’ of IHIs vis-a-vis general historical inquiries. Based on the project’s findings we address how intercultural historical learning (IHL) can be recontextualized. We propose a “contact zone model” for demarcating historical inquiry cases (from the discursive to event levels, and considering shifting, overlapping temporal and spatial scales) and four organizing principles to practically support the design of concrete activities to promote IHL.

Authors

• Maria Johansson, Karlstad University
  Presenting Author

• Kenneth Nordgren, Karlstad University
  Presenting Author