The purpose and practice of history education: can a humanist approach to teaching history facilitate citizenship education?

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dc.contributor.authorStout, Aaron P.
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorvon Heyking, Amy
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-24T17:42:24Z
dc.date.available2019-12-24T17:42:24Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractHistory has a longstanding relationship with citizenship education (Osborne, 2000). Pedagogically, history classes were used to pass on established narratives to students that reinforced predetermined social priorities. Needless to say, the transmission of nationalistic content has not developed students who know history (Dominion Institute, 2009). Recent scholarship argues that a procedural approach to history education will foster the development of students’ historical consciousness (Seixas & Morton, 2013, Seixas, 2006). This thesis questions the effect of a historical thinking pedagogy, suggesting that the procedural approach does little to shift the historical consciousness of students. Instead, inspired by the work of Barton and Levstik (2004), this thesis argues that history should be taught as a humanity (Nussbaum, 2006), that strives to foster disciplinary thinking, open-mindedness, and imaginative understanding, in order to be relevant as a means of citizenship education in a pluralistic democracy.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5650
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subject0727en_US
dc.proquest.subject0520en_US
dc.proquest.subject0530en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.publisher.departmentEducationen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subjectHistory Educationen_US
dc.subjectCitizenship Educationen_US
dc.subjectHistorical Consciousnessen_US
dc.subjectHistorical Thinkingen_US
dc.subjectHumanismen_US
dc.subject.lcshHistory -- Study and teaching -- Research
dc.subject.lcshCitizenship -- Study and teaching -- Research
dc.subject.lcshEducation, Humanistic
dc.subject.lcshDissertations, Academic
dc.titleThe purpose and practice of history education: can a humanist approach to teaching history facilitate citizenship education?en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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