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Title: | Historical Thinking in Higher Education: Staff and student perceptions of the nature of historical thinking | Contributor(s): | Nye, Adele (author) ; Hughes-Warrington, Marnie (author); Roe, Jill (author); Russell, Penny (author); Peel, Mark (author); Deacon, Desley (author); Laugesen, Amanda (author); Kiem, Paul (author) | Publication Date: | 2009 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/10079 | Abstract: | This article provides an introduction to the results of a nationwide scoping study of student and staff perceptions of the nature and roles of historical thinking. In 2008-09, over 1400 students and 50 staff from 12 universities around Australia completed interviews and questionnaires. This research report examines student and staff responses to the second questionnaire item, asking for an assessment of the connection between particular activities and historical thinking. The national data reflected a surprisingly consistent pattern of responses and highlighted at least three things which should be of interest and concern to academics: first, students far more than their teachers associated the handling of secondary sources with historical thinking; second, students drew few connections between online work and historical thinking; and third, there were few discernible differences in the responses of introductory and upper-level students. These findings underscore the need for sector-wide work on promoting primary materials work with students, for developing the opportunities provided by computer-assisted learning and articulating and communicating to students the standards of achievement valued by the profession as marking the development of historical thinking at tertiary level. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | History Australia, 6(3), p. 73.1-73.16 | Publisher: | Monash University ePress | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1833-4881 1449-0854 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210303 Australian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 939902 Education and Training Theory and Methodology | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://journals.publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/ha/article/view/ha090073 |
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