Volume 12.1

Editorial

Sweden

Ethical Values and History: a mutual relationship?

Niklas Ammert, Linnaeus University (Kalmar)

 

Australia 

Teaching History Using Feature Films: practitioner acuity and cognitive neuroscientific validation

Debra Donnelly, University of Newcastle

 

Greece 

The Difficult Relationship Between the History of the Present and School History in Greece: cinema as a ‘deus ex machina'. Results arising from research with students

George Kokkinos, University of the Aegean (Rhodes, Greece) Panayotis Kimourtzis, University of the Aegean (Rhodes, Greece) Elli Lemonidou, University of Patras (Patras, Greece) Panayotis Gatsotis, University of the Aegean (Rhodes, Greece) Petros Trantas, University of the Aegean (Rhodes, Greece)

 

United States of America

Social Studies Use of Film: a research study

William B. Russell III, Joshua Kenna and Cyndi Mottola Poole, University of Central Florida (Orlando)

 

Croatia

The Role of Visual Tools in the Process of Teaching and Learning History: an analysis of Croatian Humanistic Secondary school Text Books

Rona Bušljeta, University of Zagreb

 

Hungary

The Image of the Arabs in Hungarian History Textbooks and History Teaching

Csaba Fazekas, University of Miskolc

 

Spain

Eurocentric History in Spanish Textbooks

Manuel Pousa, Instituto de Educación Secundaria les (IES) de Mugardos (A Coruña) and Ramón López Facal, University of Santiago de Compostela

 

Portugal

Challenging Students' Ideas on Historical Evidence by Using Heritage Remains in Field Activities

Helena Pinto, CIEd (Centro de Investigação em Educação [Centre for Research in Education]), University of Minho (Braga)

 

Portugal

Portuguese Primary School Pupils' Ideas about Historical Evidence using Old Newspapers as Sources

Glória Solé, University of Minho (Braga)

 

The Netherlands

Discussing Historical Significance in the Class room: ‘But why is this so important?'

Jannet van Drie, Carla van Boxtel and Brenda Stam, Research Institute of Child Education, University of Amsterdam

 

United States of America

The Dilemma of a Divided City: students' solutions towards the Berlin debate

Jeffrey M. Byford, University of Memphis Brian K. Horn, Colorado Mesa University (Grand Junction)

 

United Kingdom (England)

A Critical Comparison of the 2013 draft English Curriculum with Current High School Practice

Joe Smith, Edge Hill University (Ormskirk)