Teaching the Discipline of History in an Age of Standards

Jennifer Clark is Head of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. She has taught history in universities for over 25 years. She is a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and a national Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. She was a partner on the ALTC funded project After Standards and the OLT funded project In the Beginning: Renewing first year curriculum for social sciences and humanities in the context of discipline threshold standards. Adele Nye is a senior lecturer in Contextual Studies at the School of Education at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW. For more than two decades, her research has focused on historical thinking and history education in the Australian higher education sector. She was the primary investigator in an ALTC funded national project called Historical Thinking in Higher Education. Her current research examines perceptions of evidence, theory and influence in the disicipline in Australia and Northern Europe.  She is a member of the Australasian HIST-SoTL committee.

Chapter 1. The Three Contexts of Writing about History Teaching.- Part I: Issues in Contemporary History Pedagogy in a Standards Environment.- Chapter 2. Snapshot: The Discipline of History in British and Australian Universities.- Chapter 3. Passion: The place of passion in history teaching in a standards environment.- Chapter 4. First Year: Teaching the History TLOs to First Year Students.- Chapter 5. Delivery: Relics of the Past? Rethinking the History Lecture and Tutorial.- Chapter 6. Progression: Principles and practice.- Chapter 7. Compliance: Built to fail, negotiating the compliance paradox.- Chapter 8. In the Shadow of Bologna: Teaching and Learning Outcomes in the United States and Europe.- Chapter 9. Leadership: Enabling Leadership in the Teaching and Learning of History in Higher Education.- Part II: Unpacking the Threshold Learning Outcomes.- Chapter 10. TLO 1: Demonstrate an understanding of at least one period or culture of the past.- Chapter 11. TLO 2: Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of conceptual approaches to interpreting the past.- Chapter 12. TLO 3: How historians influence the present and future.- Chapter 13. TLO 4: Identify and interpret a wide variety of secondary and primary sources.- Chapter 14. TLO 5: Examine historical issues by undertaking research according to the methodological and ethical conventions of the discipline.- Chapter 15. TLO 6: Examine historical evidence, scholarship and changing representations of the past.- Chapter 16. TLO 7: Construct an evidence-based argument or narrative in audio, digital, oral, visual or written form.- Chapter 17. TLO 8: Identify and reflect critically on the knowledge and skills developed in the study of history.