Why History Education? (eBook)

Eugenia Alexaki, PhD, lecturer in art history, University of West Attica; School of Applied Arts and Culture, Athens (Greece). Denise Bentrovato, PhD, senior researcher and extraordinary lecturer in history education at the University of Pretoria, and co-director of the African Association for History Education (AHE-Afrika). Joshua Chakawa, PhD, Department of History, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe. Main research interests: history education in Zimbabwe Alois Ecker, PhD, professor emeritus of the University of Vienna and University of Graz, founding president of the Austrian Society for History Didactics (GDÖ); since 1994 member of the History Education Consultancy Group, Council of Europe. Elize van Eeden, PhD, professor of history, School of Social Sciences, North-West University, South Africa. Main research interests: regional history studies, history in multidisciplinary contexts Panayotis Gatsotis, PhD, teacher of secondary education, adjunct lecturer at the University of Western Macedonia (Greece); Main research interests: history education, intercultural education Giorgos Kokkinos, PhD, professor of history and history didactics at the Department of Primary Education of Aegean University-Rhodes, Greece. Georg Marschnig, PhD, senior scientist for the didactics of history at the Department of History, University of Graz. Main research interests: memory studies, history culture and language awareness in history didactics Knysna Motumi, PhD, chief education specialist (retired Oct 2022). Main research interests: history education and local history use in education Eyal Naveh, PhD, professor emeritus of history at Tel Aviv University and at the Kibbutzim College of Education. Main research interests: textbooks for the Israeli K-12 education system, the Israeli-Palestinian Two Narratives history project Piotr Podemski, PhD, assistant professor of history and Italian studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Main research interests: 20th century Italian history, European dictatorships, paradigms of history education in Poland and Europe Susanne Popp, PhD, professor of history didactics at University of Augsburg, President of ISHD. Main research interests: aspects of history didactics related to global history, European history, cultural heritage Anu Raudsepp, PhD, associate professor of history didactics, University of Tartu, Estonia; Main research interests: national history of education, history textbooks, contemporary history Dennis Röder, M.A., history and English teacher and teacher trainer in Lower Saxony. Main research interests: teaching world/global history and sensitive issues (history of racism), public history Nimrod Tal, PhD, lecturer at the History Department and director of the Israeli Institute of History Education at Kibbutzim College of Education. Main research interests: cultures of war in graphic novels, history of history teaching in Haifa Petros Trantas, PhD, expert in empirical research in social science and education; Main research interests: adult education and teachers' education, quantitative and qualitative research in education Polina Verbytska, PhD, professor at the Department of History, Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage, Lviv Polytechnic National University, head of Nova Doba: All-Ukrainian Association of History Teachers. Karin Veski, PhD, lecturer in contemporary history at the Institute of History and Archaeology of the University of Tartu, Estonia. Main research interests: contemporary history and imagology Pieter Warnich, PhD, associate professor in history education at the North-West University, South Africa. Roy Weintraub, PhD, senior researcher at the Israeli Institute of History Education at Kibbutzim College of Education.

Why History Education
Roy Weintraub, Nimrod Tal and Eyal Naveh: History Education in Israel: Between the Silicon Valley and theThird Temple

Denise Bentrovato and Joshua Chakawa: Patriotism and the Politicisation of National History and Heritage in Zimbabwe's School Curriculum Reform (2015–2022)

Georg Marschnig: 'Sometimes, It Is Enough to Look Back to See the Future Clearly.' Dealing with Memory Cultures to Learn About the Past ... and the Future

Piotr Podemski: Unity in Diversity? The Perceived Sense(s) of History Education in Poland as Revealed in Regional History Competitions

Polina Verbytska: The Role of Memory Discourses and History Education in Fostering Youth Civic Identity in Ukraine: Different Approaches and Practices

Knysna Motumi, Elize van Eeden and Pieter Warnich: Voices from a South African Community on Why a History 'All Around Us' Education Matters

Dennis Röder and Susanne Popp: Why History Education? Exploring YouTube Explanatory Videos – The German Example of 'Mrwissen2go Geschichte'

Forum

Giorgos Kokkinos, Eugenia Alexaki, Panayotis Gatsotis and Petros Trantas: The Sick Body: Revisiting History Education Through the History of Disease and Art History

Karin Veski and Anu Raudsepp: On the Reflection of Sub-Saharan Africa's Colonial Period in Estonian Textbooks of the 19th–21st Centuries

Alois Ecker: The Planungsmatrix: A Digital Tool for Designing History Lessons and History Courses

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Authors' Index

Peer-Reviewers of the 2021 and 2022 JHEC

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