Essays about: "Teaching History"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 67 essays containing the words Teaching History.
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6. Who can “I” or “we” be without Gender? An online ethnographic study to understand identity inside the alchemy of agender
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för temaAbstract : This research is a curiosity for the spaces outside the gender binary, the spaces where an “I” and a “we” could manifest unencumbered by this hierarchical binary[1]. The binary is often in gender research considered a system of understanding sexed peoples in this world based on their differential position in relation to one another. READ MORE
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7. Teaching Tolerance through History: A practice perspective on school trips to the memorial sites of the Holocaust
University essay from Lunds universitet/EuropastudierAbstract : This work studies the practice of school trips to the memorial sites of the Holocaust with the aim of investigating how history is used in order to form tolerance among the participating students. The study employs a theoretical foundation of practice theory and literature on the academic debate on learning from the past. READ MORE
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8. Digital adoption in Entrepreneurship Education in the time of Covid-19 - The impacts and lessons to learn and apply for post-Covid-19. A Mutiple Case Study
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Digital adoption has already been a discussion topic among academia for years, but the education industry was still reluctant to try embracing digital to deliver lectures or organize classes, until the disruption caused by Covid-19; the pandemic has undeniably affected a lot of fields, including Entrepreneurship education (EE). For the first time in the academy's history, adopting digital solutions to transit to emergency remote teaching was set up. READ MORE
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9. Rethinking Source Criticism -Towards the development of an analytical model for evaluation of sources in times of massinformation and fake news
University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : This thesis discusses source criticism from a critical perspective which encompasses its challenges, demands and possibilities for teaching practice. The questions guiding the core of this research are the following:1) What differentiates people’s activities in the process of evaluating sources? 2) What characterizes an effective practice in critical evaluation of sources? 3) Which criteria, factors and strategies might be important to consider in order to have a successful source critical methodology that promotes the improvement of critical thinking when analysing information and news?The studied materials include data from one survey and 54 semi-structured interviews. READ MORE
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10. Civil Religion Iconography : A New Theoretical Perspective Regarding Public Art
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : Based on the idea that public art reflects cultural values and is meant, not as many have argued as a means of teaching history, but rather as a means of promoting cultural ideals, public art serves a role in lauding people and behaviors and reflects an important facet in the creation of a national identity and ethos. Further, that in this function of promoting societal norms, public art serves as an iconography of a “civil religion” which tells a story to the citizenry about what a given country admires, reveres and aspires to and promotes a specific moral narrative regarding a country and its people. READ MORE
