Popa, N.;
(2021)
Cultivating historical consciousness in the history classroom: Uncovering the subtleties of student meaning making with the help of found poetry.
History Education Research Journal
, 18
(2)
pp. 224-246.
10.14324/HERJ.18.2.06.
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Abstract
This article explores student meaning making in a Grade 11 US history unit on the Second World War. The 10-lesson unit was designed as an experiment that aimed to apply an instructional model of historical consciousness to a classroom context. Although the notion of historical consciousness has gained significant interest in the field of history education, translating it into educational practice remains a challenge. In this study, it refers to a disposition to make meaning of the past for oneself, which is manifested in three meaning-making abilities and processes (Boix Mansilla and Gardner, 2007; Nordgren and Johansson, 2015; Rüsen, 2004). To study the manifestation of historical consciousness in the learning process during this unit, I employed found poetry on collected classroom transcripts and observations, as well as student work. I turned to this qualitative, arts-informed method when I realised the analytic methods that I had employed so far failed to capture important subtleties of students’ historical consciousness emerging from the data. In this paper, I present and discuss the results of my analysis, offer a rationale for using found poetry in history education research and reflect on the need for relevant and meaningful school history.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Cultivating historical consciousness in the history classroom: Uncovering the subtleties of student meaning making with the help of found poetry |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/HERJ.18.2.06 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/HERJ.18.2.06 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 Popa. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | history education, historical consciousness, learning processes, design research, found poems |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10138053 |
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