The Historical Inscriptions of Our Lives: Connecting Historical Thinking, Practice and Education

Abstract

This paper will reflect on my research into historical thinking, education and practice. This research largely began with my doctoral research with women with whom I had studied postgraduate history a decade earlier. The research sought out the connections between learning history at school and at universities and later historical practice. ... Both the doctoral research and my more recent research with Australian history academics have sought to articulate a nexus between education, historical thinking and practice. This work represents a segment of an ongoing and much broader research narrative which will continue to take these questions to a number of sectors within Australian communities.