- Author
- Title
- Shifting lenses
- Subtitle
- Multiperspectivity and narratives of the Dutch past in secondary history education
- Supervisors
- Co-supervisors
- Award date
- 12 October 2021
- Number of pages
- 251
- ISBN
- 9789464214208
- Document type
- PhD thesis
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
- Institute
- Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
- Abstract
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Central in this thesis is how multiple perspectives are presented in the narrative representations of the Dutch past by students, in history textbooks, and by teachers in their lessons and lesson designs. Textbook representations form the basic subject matter whereupon students reflect when they are learning to think and reason historically. In the classroom different narrative representations of the past come together.
In five subsequent studies I analyzed (a) narratives and knowledge of the national past do students construct after finishing secondary education; (b) the distinguishing features of the narrative of the Dutch Revolt in Dutch and Flemish secondary school history textbooks and the extent of multiperspectivity; (c) the multiperspectivity and metaphorical language in the narratives of the Netherlands during World War II presented in a history classroom; (d) the extent of inclusion of multiple perspectives in teachers’ lesson designs based upon a text that includes multiple perspectives compared to a schoolbook history text containing fewer perspectives; (e) the degree of multiperspectivity in students’ representations when they engage in text processing assignments based upon a schoolbook history text that contains multiple perspectives compared to a schoolbook history text containing fewer perspectives.
The findings showed that the textbooks did not contain a variety of perspectives and offer a rather simple and “closed” narrative representation of the past. Most teachers presented a restricted degree of perspectives in their lessons and lesson designs. Students’ narrative representations showed not much multiperspectivity. Students’ representations did not seem to fit into the characteristics of a nationalistic master narrative. - Note
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- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/207cd5bd-3b0c-4e33-ba69-2428c08edbda
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Thesis
Front matter
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Small country, great ambitions. Students’ narratives and shared knowledge of Dutch history
Chapter 3: Narratives and multiperspectivity in Dutch secondary school history textbooks
Chapter 4: Multiperspectivity in the history classroom: The role of narrative and metaphors
Chapter 5: Multiperspectivity in lesson designs of history teachers. The role of schoolbook texts in the design of multiperspective history lessons
Chapter 6: The influence of multiperspectivity in history texts on students’ representations of a historical event
Chapter 7: Conclusion and discussion
References
Appendices
Summary; Samenvatting; Author contributions; Publications; About the author
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