Arias-Ferrer, L.;
Egea-Vivancos, A.;
(2019)
Who changes the course of history? Historical agency in the narratives of Spanish pre-service primary teachers.
History Education Research Journal
, 16
(2)
pp. 322-329.
10.18546/HERJ.16.2.11.
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Abstract
Brief narratives created by pre-service teachers on a primary education degree course at the University of Murcia (Spain) were analysed to identify the ways in which they presented historical agents in European and Spanish history. The main units of analysis were categorized by the type of agent introduced in each narrative (individual, collective and institutional), then by identifying agents as either active or passive, and finally by describing the characteristics of their actions in terms of reasons and causes/consequences. The results reveal an emphasis on individual agents and the persistence of a superficial historical master narrative that perpetuates a distorted image of history.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Who changes the course of history? Historical agency in the narratives of Spanish pre-service primary teachers |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.18546/HERJ.16.2.11 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.18546/HERJ.16.2.11 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | ©Copyright 2019 Arias-Ferrer and Egea-Vivancos. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Spain; historical narratives; historical thinking – narratives; professional development – primary phase; historical agency |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10084462 |
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