The Structure of Historical Inquiry

Retz, Tyson

doi:10.1080/00131857.2015.1101365

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“…The triad of history from Nordgren [48] is borrowed to communicate the information. Additionally, to organize and present the findings, the three features of history inquisition proposed by Retz [53] is used. In this way, both frameworks are utilized and combined for a thorough critical analysis.…”

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“…For historical consciousness, the process through which the study's historical culture is understood, it is helpful to turn to Retz's [53] history inquisition features through which he declares that historical researchers must be able to study the past as something that presents itself to be understood as a world of meaning outside of the inquirers themselves.…”

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“…The three features of historical inquisition entail: (1) colligation, where events are organized into a whole; (2) historical distance, when the inquirer illuminates a past context separate from the present; and (3) reconstruction, where the past is reconstructed to provide content representation, and meaning that is constructed from a point of view that is not the historian's own [53]. Because it is important to provide the facts from which the decoder can make their own interpretations, the findings are presented through the organization of themes found in the archives, leaving out the researcher's own interpretations and viewpoints.…”

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“…J. Clark & Nye, 2017;Lee, 1983;Retz, 2016b), i.e., it is hard to specify one particular model of historical thinking that encompasses the diverse and sometimes conflicting approaches to history in the academic community (cf. Levisohn, 2017).…”

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“…Although there is a rather broad variety of research on historical thinking that results in differing approaches to the concept, we can say that at the most fundamental level historical thinking deals with the notion that the past is qualitatively different and distinct from the present (cf. Retz, 2016b;Wineburg, 2001). This difference then causes epistemological concerns relating to how we can come to know that past.…”

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On historical thinking and the history educational challenge

Thorp

Persson

2020

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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The notion of historical thinking has in recent years become popular in research on history education, particularly so in North America, the UK and Australia. The aim of this paper is to discuss the cognitive competencies related to historical thinking, as expressed by some influential Canadian researchers, as an history educational notion from two aspects: what is historical thinking and what does it mean in an educational context, and what are the consequences of historical thinking for history education? Our discussion will focus on possible implications of this approach to history education regarding what should be taught in history classrooms and why. By focusing on the notion of historicity, we want to argue that while a focus on a more disciplinary approach to history education is welcome, we think that more attention should be given to what could qualify as a disciplinary approach. We further argue historical thinking and the history educational challenge should be understood as wider and more complex than what history education informed by historical thinking entails.

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The modality of historical thinking in the latest Greek primary school curriculum and the new challenges in history education

Fardi

2024

The Curriculum Journal

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This paper refers to the concept of ‘historical thinking’ as it appears in the three versions of the recent Greek History Curriculum for primary school. It is a comparative study of the discourse of the three versions of the recent history curriculum for primary school. The methodological approach of this study was founded on Critical Discourse Analysis. The main purpose of this paper is to explore the meaning and context of this term as presented in the three versions of the history curriculum and to compare the findings of the study with corresponding references in the international literature regarding the terms of ‘historical thinking’. This study demonstrated that this term is not the same in all three versions of the curriculum. In the first version of the curriculum the term ‘historical thinking’ is mentioned autonomously and we also separately identify the term ‘critical thinking’, while in the second and third versions a synthesis of the term is observed, which eventually becomes ‘critical historical thinking’. As a result of this observation, the use of the terms is critically and comparatively studied. The main conclusion is that the term ‘critical historical study’ refers much more to the development of general skills and competences with cognitive characteristics and much less to the critical understanding of the historical past. Furthermore, the conclusions of this study suggest a perspective for historical thinking in contemporary curricula with new challenges such as the relationship of historical education with artificial intelligence and children's representations.

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The Structure of Historical Inquiry

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Political Turmoil Influencing Bilingual Education in the 1980s

Political Turmoil Influencing Bilingual Education in the 1980s

On historical thinking and the history educational challenge

The modality of historical thinking in the latest Greek primary school curriculum and the new challenges in history education

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