Playing with time: history and the extended present
Harris, Catherine and Bateman, Debra 2007, Playing with time: history and the extended present, in Quality in teacher education: considering different perspectives and agendas: proceedings of the 2007 Australian Teacher Education Association National Conference, Australian Teacher Education Association, Wollongong, N.S.W., pp. 197-206.
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Playing with time: history and the extended present
Quality in teacher education: considering different perspectives and agendas: proceedings of the 2007 Australian Teacher Education Association National Conference
Australian Teacher Education Association Conference
Start page
197
End page
206
Publisher
Australian Teacher Education Association
Place of publication
Wollongong, N.S.W.
Summary
In this paper we consider how the concept of time is developed in schools. We argue that the teaching and learning of history (despite the emergence of the new history in the 1970s) is still taught and learnt with a temporal bias and it is often positioned in the past. So too, history/SOSE1 student-teachers are exposed to temporal bias in their tertiary education (as is evidenced in ‘Arts Faculty’ history courses). We suggest that there needs to be greater connectedness and balance between the dimensions of time in the teaching of SOSE with specific reference to the teaching of history and futures perspectives. We offer a new conceptualisation of history which we refer to as ‘history as the extended present’ this conceptualisation positions history in multiple temporal domains (the past, present and possible, probable and preferable futures) and emphasises the relevance of teaching and learning history to students life worlds.
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0977568512 9780977568512
Language
eng
Field of Research
130299 Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified
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