3a. CONFERENCE THEMES

See below for the themes and topics and their comprehensive coverage of the history education field.

THEME 1: PUBLIC HISTORY & CITIZENSHIP

1. Pandemics, Climate Change & Natural Disasters – From the Local to Global perspectives
2. Public History, Discourse and Culture – Perspectives on The Past
3. History Education Outside and Beyond Formal Education
4. Mass Media & Public History – History and Entertainment – Fang i.e. Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google
5. Controversial, Contested, Emotive and Sensitive Issues Including
6. Citizenship Education

THEME 2: HISTORICAL CULTURE & IDENTITY

7. Historical Culture and History Education
8. The Digital Age: The Internet, World Wide Web and Powerful Tools for learning
9. Historical Consciousness and Curricula Concerns
10. Identity and History Around Us: Family, Community, Heritage and The Environment – Historical Knowledge and Curricula
11. Global Perspectives, Diversity, Ethnicity And Identity

THEME 3: THINKING HISTORICALLY, HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE & LEARNING

12. Critical Disciplinary Thinking in History – Thinking Historically through the eyes of historians’ discourse including the academic and other disciplinary historical thinkers in the creative, performing arts and social sciences [1] 13. Thinking Historically [2] – Cognitive & Psychological Perspectives: Affective, Cognitive, Empathetic, Imaginative
14. The History of History Education – Its Historical Dimension

THEME 4: PEDAGOGY/DIDACTICS: TEACHING, LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT

15. Curriculum Development, Implementation and Evaluation
16. Pedagogy and Didactics: The History Teachers’ Craft Teaching
17. History Education in The Early Years and Primary Phases [Ages 3-11] 18. History Education in The Secondary, 11-18, and Tertiary 18+ and Andragogy – Adult Education Phases
19. Statutory Curriculum Documents, National Curricula and National Examinations/Testing including awarding bodies and organisations, both private and public, state regulated or as free agents
20. Assessment – Its Nature, Purpose and Role
21. Assessment and Awarding Bodies

THEME 5: TEACHER TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

22. Teacher Training, Initial and Continuing Professional Development

THEME 6: RESEARCHING HISTORY EDUCATION

23. Pure and Applied Research and Evidence Based History Education
24.Research – The Reflective Theorist and Practitioner
History Educational Research workshops for conference attendees

• Early phase Research Students
• History Education, Action Research and Professional Development
• History Education Research Journal
  Workshop for delegates wishing to submit articles for publication in HERJ, an international refereed journal

THEME 7: DELEGATE_PROPOSED THEMES OR WORKSHOPS

25. A delegate or group of delegates can present a 45 or 90-minute session on a topic of their own choice. The chair and presenters organise and manage the strand as they wish.

1. PANDEMICS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL DISASTERS FROM THE LOCAL TO GLOBAL

1a) Questions and Questioning

• What historical knowledge and understanding of pandemics and natural disasters do teachers have?
• What historical knowledge and understanding do teachers need to teach Pandemics and Natural Disasters effectively?
• What aspects of pandemics should be included in school curricula?
• What aspects of natural disasters should be included in school curricula?
• How should teachers deal with aspects of pandemics and natural disasters as an element in the informal, extra curricula vernacular history pupils experience?
• What are the similarities between historic pandemics and natural disasters and in relation to their historical contexts?
• How historically have these momentous events been presented to later generations?
• Historically, what has been the economic, societal , cultural, demographic, political and religious impact of pandemics and natural disasters?
• How should we teach about pandemics and natural disasters when in their historical contexts they have been linked to genocide and religious persecution?

1b) Global Pandemics in History: similarity and difference: Implications for History Education: researching weather and climate change in the past to inform present and future
1c) Climate Change: Then, Now and the Future
1d) Climate Change and Implications for History Education including:

• Extinction Rebellion
• Preserving the planet’s biodiversity
• Researching weather and climate change in the past to inform present and future

1e) Natural Disasters: Then, Now and The Future
Their nature and impact, and their impact on and role in History Education

2. PUBLIC HISTORY, DISCOURSE AND CULTURE – PERSPECTIVES ON THE PAST

2a) The purpose of history teaching and historical learning
2b) Public history and the political use of the past
2c) The role of public history in schools – does and should it have one?
2d) Imperial legacies and cultural colonialism
2e) Public History and Identity: nationalism, populism and a sense of belonging
2f) Memory Sites: e.g. monuments, memorials, statuary, displays, plaques, place names – street and site furniture – and museums for the exploration and illumination of local, national and global history
2g) Ceremony, Ritual, the Invented Past – triumphalism and identity, including national history curricula
2h) Political discourse and history education – including History Wars, Dialogue & Diatribe
2i) Does history still matter?
2j) Is it time for Global History?
2k) How can we teach Global History?
2l) The Challenge of Contemporary History: Past into Present
2m) History Education and Fake News: learning about evidence
2n) The role for History Education in a WOKE World: Cancel Culture, Decolonisation, Transgender and similar concerns

3. HISTORY EDUCATION OUTSIDE AND BEYOND FORMAL EDUCATION

3a) Public History and the public sphere,
3b) Controlling public memory: censorship, control and amnesia
3c) History from below: vernacular history: feminist: disfranchised: discriminated against: the invisible – historical cultural dimensions
3d) Identity: Public History and Identity
3e) Populism, Racism, Patriotism, Nationalism, Fundamentalism and the struggle for survival between Liberal and Plural Democracy and its Enemies
3f) History Wars and National Curricula

4. MASS MEDIA & PUBLIC HISTORY – HISTORY AND ENTERTAINMENT – FANG i.e.. Facebook, Amazon, Netflix And Google

4a) Developing historical understanding through engaging with mass media representations of history [e.g. print: film: TV: radio: audio: internet – podcasts, websites etc., virtual reality] 4b) Art, Drama, Journalism, Literature and Music
4c) Associations, Galleries, Institutions, Museums, Theatres, Organisations and Street Art
4c) Formal, informal, social and cultural learning impersonal, familial and social contexts
4d) Performance and History: representations of history from the private to the public 4f) History Education and Social Media: Facebook Netflix, Amazon, Google and other platforms
4e) History Education: impact and role

5. CONTROVERSIAL, CONTESTED, EMOTIVE AND SENSITIVE ISSUES INCLUDING

5a) History and the teaching of contested, emotive and controversial issues, including the Guilty Past
5b) History Education in polities with violent, traumatic and socially fractured pasts 5c) The role of history education in conflict or post conflict communities: peace and reconciliation
5c) Teaching history in divided societies with separate government policies, school and Higher Education curricula, resources, assessment and professional development [such curricula can be posted on the HEIRNET website for a session on discussion about a range of such curricula and both common and unique issues they raise.] 5d) Institutionally divided educational provision: ethnic, tribal, cultural, religious, social, cultural, ideological schools and schooling.
5e) Holocaust, diaspora and genocide education: from earliest times to the modern day
5f) The Guilty Past: ethnicity, eugenics & the misuse of science, discrimination, racism, ideology & religion from the Spanish Inquisition to the Stalinist Terror and Jihad
5g) The Guilty Past – political, doctrinaire, faith and religious persecution, totalitarianism, and ethnic cleansing
5h) Holocaust, diaspora and genocide education: from earliest times to the modern day
5i) LBGT Bi Lesbian Gay Transgender: The History Education Perspective
5j) #ME TOO and related issues
5k) Teaching the sensitive, controversial and emotive past: ethnicity, gender, inclusion, slavery, genocide, discrimination, colonialism & imperialism, liberation struggles, persecution, terrorist or freedom fighter?

6. CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION including CONFLICT, WAR, WARFARE and CONFLICT

6a) History Education: The cognitive ‘Doing History’ procedural/syntactic role of History in Citizenship Education
6b) History and Citizenship Education – Its relevance, importance and significance in an era of:

• Migration, immigration and refugee and migrant education
• Terrorism and resistance movements in Europe, Africa and the wider world
• Inequality, poverty and social exclusion
• The global imperatives: economic, environmental, health and well-being, population growth, climate change, global warming,
• Racism and diversity
• Retrospection and introspection – past into present and The Guilty Past

6c) Facing the Guilty Past: Education for reconciliation in society’s with guilty past’s that are ever present and need resolution / Facing the Guilty Past: Truth and Reconciliation
6d) Populism – the new Trumpite & Chinese digital age phenomenon, its drivers and implications for History and Citizenship Education
6e) The corporate dimension: from the East India Company to Exxon & Amazon Issues of identity in the Age of Corporate Imperialism, Internationalism & Federalism [e.g. EU, NATO, World Bank]. Nationalism, Populism, Regionalism and Globalisation
6f) Shared global values
6g) War and Conflict: at all levels and in all forms

• International Blocs, Alliances and Warfare
• Civil, national and international wars
• Guerrilla war
• Terrorism, conflict and war
• Cold wars
• Faith, Religion, Ideology and warfare
• Repression and Control: Big Brother and his relatives
• Resistance and Rebellion
  The power of the powerless
  Regime change
• Conflict Resolution

7. HISTORICAL CULTURE AND HISTORY EDUCATION

7a) Cultural capital – its nature, role and impact [Bourdieu] 7b) History around us
7c) Street furniture: art, architecture, monuments, sculpture in the everyday environment
7d) A sense of identity and History Education’s civic, communal, regional, nationalistic and patriotic roles
7e) History Education, culture and social class
7f) History, culture and social class
7g) History Education and the Marxist legacy
7h) History Education and Social Science: A marriage made in heaven or hell?

8. THE DIGITAL AGE: THE INTERNET, WORLD WIDE WEB AND POWERFUL TOOLS FOR LEARNING

8a) The Internet and Thinking Historically: The World Wide Web and powerful tools for History Education at the teacher, pupil, parent/carer and classroom levels

• Teaching and learning
• Pupils as historians and thinking historically from theory into practice – The Internet and historical sources, resources and data:
• Researching the past via the Internet
• Communities of practice – webs and networks
• Social Media, Interactivity e.g. conferences, symposia, tutoring, virtual reality, Facebook, twitter, smart phones – texting / discourse
• Digital technology in the classroom – iPhones, tablets, laptops, electronic blackboards
• Virtual reality, modelling and historical representation and interpretation

8b) BIG BROTHER: The Orwellian Nightmare – the threat of 5th Generation computing in the digital age
8c) Distance & Home Learning: Online
8d) The ZOOM age

9. HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND CURRICULA CONCERNS

9a) Historical Consciousness – its nature, significance and cultural roots
9b) Factors Affecting Historical Consciousness and Citizenship:

• Cultural,
• Economic,
• Ethnic,
• Familial,
• Geographical,
• Ideological,
• Political,
• Social and
• Tribal Factors

9c) The Cultural and Oral past:

• Chronicles
• Dance
• Fairy Tales
• Legends
• Music
• Myths,
• Narratives

9d) Historical Education & Consciousness: Diversity – Ethnicity, Gender, Orientation
9e) Historical Consciousness and Identity: Populism, Patriotism, Nationalism and Xenophobia
9f) Populism in the age of Bolsonaro, Johnson, Putin, Trump, Xi and its threat to Liberalism and Liberal Democracy

10. IDENTITY AND HISTORY AROUND US: FAMILY, COMMUNITY, HERITAGE AND THE ENVIRONMENT – HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE AND CURRICULA CONCERNS

10a) Historical knowledge: what, why, how, where and when b) Aspects of Identity

• Personal, Family history, memory and identity
• Clan, tribe, nationality, ethnicity and identity
• Faith, religion and ideology
• Local and communal history

10c) Nationalism, populism and a sense of belonging
10d) The forgotten, censored, hidden and expunged past: repression, suppression, ethnic cleansing and genocide
10e) Students’ prior historical knowledge: social conversation and the history classroom, individual and collective memory, consciousness and understanding and the taught curriculum – school and classroom museums, monuments, plaques, displays, memorials, art galleries, churches

• Local, school and communal history
• Oral history and historical learning
• Regional history
• Heritage

10f) Exploring the environment, its heritage and memory sites, e.g.–

• archaeological sites
• art galleries
• museums
• palaces
• theme parks

10g) commemorative, communal history transmitted through:

• advertising
• anniversaries
• broadcasts
• celebrations
• cenotaphs
• ceremonies
• commemorations
• displays exhibitions
• games and gaming
• memorial services
• memorials
• message boards
• monuments
• news programmes
• personal and family names
• plaques – radio
• religious services
• the Internet
• TV

11. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, DIVERSITY, ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY

11a) Globalisation and the Extinction Agenda: Past and Present
11b) Multi-Faith, Multi-Ethnic and Culturally Diverse Societies
11c) Values, beliefs, human rights and social justice
11d) History and Gender
11e) History Education and Ethnicity
11f) History Education and Diversity – a question of personal, familial and communal identities?
11g) Fundamentalism, nationalism, patriotism, regionalism, internationalism & liberal education
11h) History Education in post-colonial societies
11i) History Education and supra-nationalism: multi-national corporations and agencies e.g. FANG Facebook: Amazon: Netflix: Google
11j) International networking and cooperation: national and international agencies and organisations, e.g.UK government, the EU, the UN, Oxfam and Global Witness and other organisations
11k) TIMMS, PISA and their impact upon History Education

12. CRITICAL DISCIPLINARY THINKING IN HISTORY – THINKING HISTORICALLY [1]

12a) Historical knowledge: what, why, how, where and when
12b) Ethos and Orientation The mentalité of the history teacher – individually and collectively
12c) Thinking Historically– grounded in history’s academic disciplinary structure, substantive [propositional] and syntactic [procedural] conceptual networks, forms of knowledge and protocols for investigating historical topics, resolving historical enquiries and constructing interpretations and accounts of the past
12d) Enquiry & Investigation ‘Doing History’, forms of historical knowledge and underlying beliefs – influence and impact on history education of academic historians and thinkers R.G. Collingwood, R.J. Evans, John Fines, Jack Hexter, Peter Rogers, David Sylvester, Sam Wineburg, Jorn Rusen
12e) ‘Doing History’ pupils and students as proto-historians: investigating the past and constructing syntactically based historical understanding
12f) Academic historians and disciplinary thinking: the historian’s craft,
e.g. Peter Geyl, Sir Lewis Namier, E.P. Thompson, the Annales School, Jack Hexter, Eric Hobsbawm, David Cannadine, Ruth Schurr, Margaret MacMillan, drawing on the discourse of academic historians for understanding disciplinary thinking
12g) History educationalists, psychologists and disciplinary thinking: Jerome Bruner, John Fines, Jack Hexter, David Sylvester, Alan Blyth, Hilary Cooper, Piaget, Peter Lee, Stephan Lévesque, Jorn Rusen, Vygotsky, Sam Wineburg, Jean Lave, h) International perspectives on critical disciplinary thinking in history
12i) ‘Doing History’ pupils and students as proto-historians: investigating the past and constructing syntactically based historical understanding
12j) Professional Knowledge: Teacher professionalism including Professional Content Knowledge, Shulman’s PCK.
12k) Cognitive Apprenticeship, Reflective Practice and Communities of Practice Powerful conceptualisations of professional development
12l) Constructivism – A common thread in historians’ view of History as a discipline from Thucydides to the modern day
12m) National History Curricula and their relationship to academic history [such curricula can be posted on the HEIRNET website for a session on discussion about a range of such curricula and both common and unique issues they raise 12n) School history and academic history: nature and relationship
12n) School history and academic history: nature and relationship

13. THINKING HISTORICALLY [2] – COGNITIVE & PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES: AFFECTIVE, COGNITIVE, EMPATHETIC, IMAGINATIVE AND CREATIVE

13a) Competence Orientation (historical thinking) in History Didactics
13b) Conceptual understanding – substantive/propositional and syntactic/procedural pupil and student understanding of substantive [propositional – substantive – first order] and syntactic [procedural – syntactic – second order] disciplinary concepts 13c) Second Order Concepts – the tyranny of? The missing link – the framework of substantive conceptual, factual concepts that give structure and purpose to historical knowledge based upon syntactic and procedural knowledge.
13d) Counter factuals, simulation and drama and the development of historical knowledge and understanding
13e) Creativity in History Education – its central, key role?
13f) Developmental psychology: From Piaget and Vygotsky to Neural Science, i.e. what does thinking historically mean from the development psychological perspective in terms of theory, pure and applied research
13g) Empathetic understanding– affective, effective, sympathetic, emotive
13h) Mastery Learning in history education: theory and practice [Jerome Bloom] 13i) Mind-sets History Education’s role in creating mind-sets that focus upon, value, support participatory citizenship, liberal democracy, multi-culturalism and associated human rights education
13j) Neuroscience: How can educational neuroscience inform history education – see Area13
13k) Pupil Voice: its nature and role in History Education
Pupil Voice: The negotiated curriculum: pupil voice and impact in shaping history curricula
13l) Pupils’ perceptions and perspectives on school, social and vernacular history
13m) Situated Cognition: the impact and influence of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger 13n) Social learning: peer interaction, cognitive apprenticeship and the social learning paradigm
13o) Vygotsky et. al including Feuerstein’s mediated learning
13p) Jerome Bruner
13q) The informed imagination – inference, association, insight, fanciful, creative: making connections

14. THE HISTORY OF HISTORY EDUCATION – ITS HISTORICAL DIMENSION’

14a) Past and present schools of history: discussion, debates and controversies: historiographical perspectives
14b) The political dimension – The Right Kind of History’ with cultural, ethnic, faith and ethical connotations, control and imperatives
14c) Philosophical origins and roots, seminal movements and initiatives developments and key ideas
14d) National curricula – their nature and political role/function [such curricula can be posted on the HEIRNET website for a session on discussion about a range of such curricula and both common and unique issues they raise] 14e) Educational reform and history education
14f) History textbooks, their nature, role and function;
14g) Innovative resources for teaching history
14h) Pedagogical innovation, initiatives and approaches to teaching history
14i) Research and development projects
14j) Testing, assessment and public examinations
14k) Key figures and their contribution
14l) Cross-curricularity, Humanities and Social Studies
14m) A sense of identity and History Education’s civic, communal, nationalistic and patriotic roles
14n) Teacher Professional Development – Training and Continuing ProfessionalDevelopment
14o) Past into Present: Lessons from History Education’s history

15. CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION

15a) The History Curriculum

• Political control and imperatives
• History as political education, propaganda and control – the elephant in the history education sitting room?

15b) National Curricula, National Identity, Patriotism and Nationalism;

• History Wars – battles over national and other history curricula: the contested and controversial past
• Questions of identity, ethnicity, race, faith, beliefs, ethics, ideology, language, culture, perspectivity, beliefs, values in conflict
• The patriotic, nationalistic and xenophobic dimensions
• History as ideology with a canon of iconic memory, narratives
• Ideology as History: Marxism, Islam and Christianity
• Contemporary, Social and Cultural History: Curricula Design & Perspectivity [such curricula can be posted on the HEIRNET website for a session on discussion about a range of such curricula and both common and unique issues they raise

15c) History Curriculum development – ideological, historical and philosophical foundations, purpose, nature, orientation, creation, implementation, impact, assessment and revision + issues and factors in curriculum development
15d) History education and creativity
15e) Archaeology & History Education including Heritage Education
15f) Social sciences, humanities and integrated curricula
15g) International history curricula and the international dimension: fantasy, failure or the future?
15h) Assessment based history curricula – assessment as the vehicle, the medium. for the implementation and enforcement of government created national curricula
15i) Assessment – Its Nature, Purpose and Role & Assessment and Awarding Bodies,
15j) The impact of educational thinkers, psychologists and historians, e.g. Dewey,
Bruner, Bloom, Piaget, Rusen, Vygotsky, Henrietta Marshall, Winston Churchill 15k) Thematic and conceptual curricula, e.g. MACOS, Man, Place and Society, the spiral curriculum
15l) Pedagogic / didactics curriculum developments: turning theory and philosophy into classroom praxis, teaching and pupil learning 15m) History curricula and:

• the history teacher’s craft knowledge
• the impact of ICT in the digital age
• the Creative Curriculum
• the negotiated; curriculum: empowering pupils
• Literacy and the Language of History,
• History and English
• Historical literacy – and dialogics
• Progression – understanding, development and measuring of
• Differentiation, the challenge of
• Special Educational Needs, including Gifted & Talented Education
• Inclusion
• Diversity

16. Pedagogy and Didactics: The History Teachers’ Craft Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress

16a) History teaching protocols [lesson plans – scripts]: complex, sophisticated and effective psychological tools
16b) Doing History – History as enquiry, investigation and detection
16c) History and/as even imaginative reconstruction re-enactment, drama, role-play, simulation and the informed imagination
16d) History, Induction and Deduction, i.e. logical and creative, imaginative evidentially informed thinking 16e) Questions and Questioning
16f) Musing, Theories, Ideas, Hypotheses and Conclusions
16g) Interpretation, perspective and orientation
16h) Historical significance – for and to whom? where, when and why??
16i) Evidence (historical) & Historical Understanding
16j) Pedagogic & Didactic Network of Teaching Protocols including:

17. History Education In The Early Years And Primary Phases [Ages 3-11] n.b. these phases draw upon a wide range of other Themes & Topics

17a) 3-11 year olds epistemic beliefs about history
17b) Fairy stories, fables, legends, myths, tales, sagas, stories; accounts, chronicles, histories and narratives; role and significance
17c) Identity: anniversaries, celebrations, festivals and ceremonies. Their role in and impact upon developing a sense of identity,
17d) The identity agenda: personal, familial, social, ethnic, religious, local, regional) National and global – a sense of belonging and linking local, national and global history
17e) Constructing the past
17f) Attitudes, beliefs, behaviours, ethics, identity – belonging and values
17g) Sequence & content: chronology, temporal understanding and perspective) Textbooks, journals and on-line publications and their influence on teaching and learning
17h) Resources for the primary phase: oral, printed, written, graphic, artefactual, tactile, archaeological
17i) Primary history in the digital age: on-line and digital media, virtual reality / distance learning environments, resourcing and their influence on pedagogy and pupils
17j) Historical concepts [historical epithet that applies to them all]

17k) Children’s understanding of what history is in relation to its substantive and syntactic dimensions
17l) History in the primary curriculum: disciplinary, social science, integrated and humanities perspectives and curricula models
17m) The overall school curriculum: the nature, function and role of the primary curriculum and history’s role
17n) Promoting and developing historical thinking in the Early Years and Primary phases: i.e. ‘Doing History’ knowledge and understanding of disciplinary concepts, procedures, substantive concepts, narratives, accounts and interpretations, protocols and cognition
17o) Creativity and the informed imagination
17p) Classroom Strategies: re-enactment, drama, role-play, simulation and the informed imagination
17q) Classroom Strategies [2]: historical investigation, hypotheses, interpretations, discussion, debate and history as construction
17r) Story-telling, narrative and reconstruction: bringing the past to life

18. History Education In The Secondary, 11-18, and Tertiary – 18+ and Andragogy – Adult Education Phases

18a) Aims of History Teaching in Secondary Education
18b) Historical concepts [historical epithet applies to them all]

• accounts & narrative
• affective & emotional
• cause and causation
• change
• chronology
• consequence
• construction and reconstruction
• context
• continuity
• discontinuity
• evidence
• imagination
• perspective
• substantive historical knowledge
• substantive/propositional – first order; conceptual networks: actual knowledge
• second order, disciplinary knowledge syntactic/procedural thinking historically

18c) The Politics of History Teaching in Secondary Education
18d) Textbooks, journals and on-line publications and their influence on teaching and learning
18e) Consideration of themes and topics that cover the field of secondary and tertiary education

• 11-18: Students Ideas about the Discipline of History
• 11-18: Students Ideas about History and Moral Issues
• 11-18: Students Attitudes in relation to Controversial Issues
• 11-18: Students Historical Culture
• 11-18: Students and Video Games
• 11-18: Teaching and Learning: the digital dimension
• 11-18: Teaching and Learning: the impact of Artificial Intelligence on cognition: modelling, simulation, knowledge representation and the curriculum

18f) On-line virtual reality / distance learning environments
18g) All of a-f in their comparative contexts Tertiary 18+ and the Andragogy, Adult Education phase
18h) History Education and Higher Education
18i) On-line virtual reality / distance learning environments
18j) Andragogy – addressing the distinct educational, learning needs of adult learners and related curricula in different settings
18k) Andragogy – issues, concerns, policy, theory and practice in the transition from the secondary to Tertiary and Andragogy phase 18l) History and Adult Education
18m) History and Adult Education: Museums

• Museums as sites of critical historical thinking.
• Using museums and archives to carry out historical research

18n) History and Adult Education and on-site learning
18o) History and Adult Education and the University of the Third Age

19. Statutory Curriculum Documents, National Curricula and National Examinations/Testing

19a) National curricula in countries with regional and communal histories that are in conflict with the national master narrative or canon, including dealing with the Guilty past
19b) The implementation and interpretation of statutory curriculum documents in
classroom contexts
19c) The correlation between national curricula, their implementation and pupil’s historical learning
19d) National and other curricula’s impact upon teaching materials and classroom practice/pedagogy
19e) Testing and its impact upon the curriculum, teaching and learning at all levels
19f) The impact of government inspection and examinations, testing and assessment
19g) The PISA [Programme of International Student Assessment], the OECD and PISA’s impact upon History Education through governments’ overt politicisation of national curricula

20. Assessment – Its Nature, Purpose and Role

20a) The recording, monitoring and reporting of historical teaching and learning
20b) Peer assessment, formative, summative and diagnostic assessment
20c) Criterion based and norm-referenced assessment
20d) Assessment based learning [teaching to the test] and its impact upon the curriculum and its implementation, i.e. teaching and learning [assessment based learning or learning based assessment?] 20e) The overall, every day impact of assessment on teaching, learning and pupil’s personal development – cognitive, values, attitudes, behaviours, emotional intelligence etc.

21. Assessment and Awarding Bodies

Assessment predominantly for History at the Secondary, 11-18, level is in the hands of Assessment and Awarding Bodies. These bodies gather extensive data, evidence, about examination performance that influences and shapes their curricula, in the context of government overview and guidance. Yet, this major, if not the major area of History Education research is something that the Education Research community has largely, if not totally, ignored.

21a) The role, nature, activity, influence and findings of Assessment and Awarding bodies in History Education
21b) The overall role, nature, activity, influence and impact of Assessment upon History
21c) Assessment – the hidden dimension in Tertiary 18+ and the Andragogy, Adult Education phase
21d) TIMMS, PISA and their impact upon History Education
21e) Competencies and target drive education

22. Teacher Training, Initial and Continuing Professional Development

22a) Researching teachers’ knowledge

Diagnosis and Needs Analysis of prospective and practising teachers knowledge, skills and orientation: What do they know about 1) – history as a discipline?

1) What is history?

• disciplinary understanding,
• epistemological foundations,
• historical scholarship and discourse, i.e. subject knowledge
• History and memory

2) What abilities and qualities as prospective and practising teachers have prior to their course?

3) History teaching – professional content knowledge

4) Children, knowledge and understanding of?

5) Pupils social and cultural context, expectations and attitudes?

6) Teachers?

7) Schools as organisations?

8) How areas 1-7 affect and influence their professional development?

9) Orientation – trainees’ minds set the affects what kind of teachers they will be

22b) Initial Teacher Training and the challenges of 21 century History and Citizenship Education

• Methodological themes, looking at how history teaching/learning is studied
• Models of teacher professional development
• Cognitive Apprenticeship – a model for professional development
• 
  Instruction, demonstration and modelling (see also topic e)
• The curricula of Teacher Education Programmes
• History Teacher’s Professional Development: updating approaches, connecting theory and practice
• Government policy, teacher education, training and professional development
• Professional Development: evidence based policy and practice
• Professional Development – mixed face-to-face & distance learning [via the Internet] 10) Mentoring
• Masters programmes & Initial and Continuing Professional Development 12) A distributed model of Higher Education and School Partnership for professional development: School & HEI partnerships 13) Competence based teacher education,
• Teachers and Knowledge
• Teachers and character education
• School to school partnerships: formal and informal – pairing and consortia
• School improvement through Continuing Professional Development [CCD]
• School based Continuing Professional Development [CPD]
• The role of Higher Education in teacher education, training and development

23. Pure and Applied Research and Evidence Based History Education
23a) Data collection and data analysis [conference Training Session / Workshop to be held on data collection and data analysis] 23b) How history teaching/learning is studied, e.g. classroom ethnography as a way of researching history education
23c) Research design and approaches for both new and experienced researchers
23d) Researching collaboration and partnerships between schools and universities and other agencies
23e) Case Study Research – applied research
23f) Curriculum Development – school based
23g) Curriculum Development – assessment bodies and government agencies
23h) Curriculum Development – academically based in Higher Education
23i) Curriculum Development, Implementation & Evaluation23j) Evidence led policy and practice: institutionally grounded
23k) Multi Methods Research [MMR], Mono Method Research
23l) New frontiers in History Educational Research: theory, scholarship and practice
23m) Qualitative research – in the context of ‘cases’ based upon practitionerresearch & evidence-based praxis
23n) Quantitative research – in the context of ‘cases’ based upon practitionerresearch & evidence-based praxis
23o) University research in collaboration with teachers – partnership
23p) Researching Impact: control and pilot groups
23q) Research, government / jurisdiction educational policy, curricula and professional development
23r) Medical model of research involving practitioners at all levels, and their implementation
23s) Communicating History: Writing History Education academic and professional articles, papers and reports: guidance and support – session to be held on this
23t) Reporting History Education: other genres and their formats:– e.g. position pieces, vignettes, reviews, summaries, notes and communication media: also;
e.g. on-line, video, websites, podcasts, power-points, oral, visual, performance, display

24. History Educational Research workshops for conference attendees

24a) Early phase Research Students

24b) History Education, Action Research and Professional Development

24c) History Education Research Journal

24d) Workshop for delegates wishing to submit articles for publication in HERJ, an international refereed journal

To be organised and presented according to the presenter’s/s’ wished. If you have any queries please contact the conference organisers. To make a Submission with it’s abstract for the conference, click on the Submit Submission link below to complete and send your submission.