The thesis focuses on the ambiguity in teaching historical topics at ISCED 1 level of education, portraying a teaching method aimed at developing pupils' ability to perceive and reflect upon the ambiguity in teaching history. This ambiguity is demonstrated on historical events concerning Jan Hus. The objective is to develop a thematic unit on ambiguity of approach to historical facts, then to reflect upon the implementation and to outline suggestions for further work. In the beginning the thesis shows the importance of studying history, the changes to teaching the subject in elementary schools throughout time, the concept of historical thinking, memory and multiperspectivity. The practical part documents and reflects upon a process, that was implemented with groups of elementary school pupils. Than analyszs and interprets pupils' outputs. The conclusion contains modifications to the unit, suggested in such a way, that they entice the students' capabilities to interpret matter and to form an argument, as well as their historical thinking and their ability to reflect upon the ambiguity of teaching history, as much as possible.

The Holocaust is an important part of Swedish history teaching. It tends to exemplify human rights violations and has become a means to educate students to be better citizens. Swedish studies have often focused on students’ historical consciousness. This study aims to examine students’ historical thinking about the Holocaust. Three questions are addressed; how students express substantive knowledge, how students express procedural concepts, and how do students express moral aspects about the Holocaust. The material was created during the authors’ teaching practice (in Swedish VFU) and consists of 28 students’ texts. To analyze the material qualitative content analysis was used. Procedural concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, historical agency and, moral aspects, were also used as tools to interpret students’ texts about what was the cause of the Holocaust. The results show that students made implicit references to different procedural concepts when describing how the Holocaust happened. Students often referred to anti-Semitism, Adolf Hitler, and the developed train system as causes for the Holocaust. They tended to understand Hitler as the founder of anti-Semitism and Nazism. He was described to convince the German people to vote for him. Structures and agency of other actors, therefore, disappeared leading to a shallow understanding of the Holocaust. The author of the study argues for a Holocaust education that uses Alice Pettigrews’ concept of “powerful knowledge” and Gert Biestas’ notion of qualification, socialization, and subjectification, to develop students’ moral and civic understanding.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to analyze and compare the didactic potential of Czech and Austrian history textbooks regarding to their anchoring in the educational system and working with historical thinking and historical literacy, generally with the development of students' key competencies. The thesis took into account differences in the educational systems of both countries, the curriculum and, overall, worked with the goals of modern history teaching. The comparison was made on historical events that connect these two countries, and the core of the thesis is the analysis of processing these topics in terms of the Research-Based teaching goals. The output of this thesis is a specific teaching unit that works with Czech and Austrian textbooks and tries to cover the main theses of modern didactics of history. Keywords Textbooks, history teaching, Czech Republic, Austria, Research-Based teaching, historical thinking, historical literacy

This essay examines to which degree students in history in a swedish upper secondary schoolmanage to apropriate cogntive tools and frameworks in order to create narratives. The casestudy concentrates on a specific cognitive tool, namley narrative structure and to whichextent it helps students to make order of and organise historical subject matter intomeaningful narratives through teaching that is specifically designed to accomplish this kindof historical reasoning through cognitive tools and frameworks.Furthermore this study also examines epistemological beliefs and to which extent thesebeliefs either help or mislead the students on their way towards a qualified historicalconsciousness.This study also focus on the concept of narrative competence and to which extent studentsin history develop this competence through different frameworks and narrative structure.This study shows how students use cognitive tools and frameworks to create narratives. Butthe students often tend to mix different types of narration in their texts. The definetely tryto create histories with help of narrative structure but they do not manage to go all the waywith the result of their texts being hybrids of different structures of textWhen it comes to the epitemological beliefs many of the students tend to hold relativisticviews of history which doesn ́t necessarily mean they believe anything goes but more in thecontext of perspectives as important to change the direction of the narrative depending onwho is telling the story and what dimension of history that is displayed. Not many studentshave yet reached a evidence-based criterialist position.

A central aspect of Swedish history teaching is to develop one's ability to use history and to develop historical awareness. As a support for the teacher, there are several different textbooks, but the content may differ in terms of both factual knowledge and methods. With this as a starting point and with focus on using history, the purpose of this essay is to investigate how source management can be applied to different historical events and people, as well as how historical awareness can be developed with the help of different thinking tools. The questions that will be answered are which people and events the books cover withthe source management chapters that exist, how source management methods can be applied to this course of events and how historical awareness can be developed through these books.The method that will be used is a qualitative content analysis to analyze and interpret theteaching books. To examine these issues, Peter Seixa's thinking tool guide and Niklas Ammert's learning material theory will be used as the theoretical framework. With the help ofthese, the content must be assimilated to investigate how the development of historical thinking. Based on previous research, there are abilities and knowledge students must develop through history teaching, but how textbooks can be used is not presented to the same extent.

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Plusieurs recherches en didactique de l’histoire se sont intéressées à la faible présence des femmes dans les manuels. Toutefois, aucune ne s’est penchée sur la compréhension des questions reliées au genre dans les récits historiques par les élèves. Cette étude propose de combler cette absence grâce à une étude de cas exploratoire auprès d’élèves de quatrième secondaire en histoire nationale. Nous avons interrogé les adolescents sur leurs conceptions du manuel d’histoire et du féminisme par voie de questionnaire (n=595) et à l’aide d’entretiens individuels (n=9). Durant ces entrevues, des extraits de manuels offrant des discours divergents sur le féminisme leur étaient présentés. Ce travail décrit et analyse les usages du manuel par les élèves, leurs conceptions des luttes féministes dans l’histoire, de même que leur compréhension du rôle accordé aux femmes dans les récits historiques (agentivité). Les élèves perçoivent le manuel d’histoire comme véridique et neutre. Ils l’utilisent d’abord et avant tout afin de répondre à des questions de repérage d’informations historiques. Ils sont peu enclins à le remettre en question, même lorsqu’ils sont confrontés à des récits contradictoires. Ils ont plutôt tendance à amoindrir les différences retrouvées dans les récits afin que le discours corresponde à leurs conceptions initiales de la matière. Pour une majorité d’élèves, les luttes féministes sont associées au passé et il y a peu de liens à faire avec le présent. Le mouvement féministe est associé de manière prépondérante à l’obtention du droit de vote et à quelques évènements ponctuels dénués de contextualisation. Les stéréotypes de genre sont perceptibles dans les réponses de nombreux adolescents, de même que l’antiféminisme, dans une moindre proportion. Cependant, la majorité des élèves rencontrés en entrevue a été en mesure de déceler des différences en fonction de l’agentivité dans les extraits de manuels proposés. Cela nous porte à croire que le développement d’habiletés liées à la pensée historienne en classe pourrait mener les élèves à réfléchir de manière critique aux rapports de genre dans l’histoire. Mots-clés : manuels ; féminisme ; histoire des femmes ; genre ; histoire nationale ; école secondaire ; agentivité ; pensée historienne. / Several research in history education have focused on the low number of women found in textbooks. However, none has looked at the issues of gender in the historical understanding of students. This study proposes to address these questions through an exploratory case study conducted with grade 10 students of national history. We asked these teenagers about their conceptions of the history textbook and feminism; first by using a questionnaire (n = 595) and then with the help of individual interviews (n = 9). During these interviews, excerpts of textbooks offering divergent narratives on feminism were presented. This thesis describes and analyzes the use of the textbooks by students, their conceptions of feminist struggles in history, as well as their understanding of the role of women in historical accounts (agency). Students perceive the history textbook as true and neutral. They first and foremost use it to answer queries related to specific historical content. They are reluctant to question it, even when faced with conflicting accounts. They tend to lessen the differences found in the narratives so that it reflects their initial conceptions of the subject. A majority of student associate the feminist movement with the past and make little links with the present. Their knowledge of feminism is predominantly limited to the right to vote and a very few other events, all devoid of context. Gender stereotypes are evident in the responses of many teenagers as well as anti-feminism, to a lesser extent. However, the majority of students interviewed were able to identify some differences in terms of the agency of women found in textbooks. This leads us to believe that the development of historical thinking in a classroom context could lead students to think more critically about gender issues in history. Keywords: textbooks; feminism; women’s history; gender ; national history; high school; agency; historical thinking.

Roman PAZDERSKÝ, The Historian W. W. Tomek and His Importance in the Czech Historiography, dissertation thesis, FF UK, Prague 2019 This dissertation thesis is an attempt to thoroughly evaluate the significance of the Czech historian Wácslaw Wladiwoj Tomek (1818-1905) for Czech historiography. The basic methodological assumption of the work is the belief that the meaning of Tomek's intellectual contribution can be adequately understood only on the basis of the broader contexts of his life and work, which are perceived in his integral interconnection with the corresponding social, political and cultural contexts of the history of the Czech society in the 19th century. The introductory chapters provide a detailed overview of the sources and literature on the subject, including the discussion of W. W. Tomek's present reflections in a wider rather than narrow historiographical space. The essential part of the introduction is the subchapter Czech Historiography as a Research Topic, aiming to find a suitable conceptualization key for competent reflections on the changes of the Czech historiography of the 19th century on the background of relevant social and historical contexts. The following chapter, titled "Long Life in a Short Impression," presents a clear outline of Tomek 's life, whose aim is not to...

É possível aprender História com sentido para a Vida? Esta pesquisa, cujo objetivo é compreender em que medida o pensamento histórico de estudantes brasileiros e portugueses apresenta aspectos de uma consciência histórica pertinente para a reflexão acerca das demandas da cultura histórica contemporânea, pautou-se por essa indagação. Em outras palavras, procurou verificar como o ensino de História, nas escolas públicas de Brasil e Portugal, tem contribuído para o desenvolvimento de uma consciência histórica que possibilite a satisfação das carências de orientação temporal e constituição de identidade na sociedade atual. Para a consecução dessa meta coletou informações com o intuito de conhecer os diferentes perfis de caráter socioeconômico e cultural dos grupos pesquisados, além de narrativas discentes geradas pela interpretação de um fato histórico comum a Brasil e Portugal - a transferência da família real portuguesa (1808). Tal material empírico foi analisado com critérios quantitativos e qualitativos, balizados pela interpretação do repertório teóricoepistemológico composto por experiências de autores de diferentes áreas do conhecimento histórico como a Filosofia da História, a Didática da História e a Educação Histórica. Este percurso possibilitou a construção de uma tipologia de análise narrativa que permite verificar as tendências de constituição do sentido histórico à orientação temporal subsumidas a grupos pesquisados. Em outras palavras, o exercício meta-histórico realizado ao longo da pesquisa permitiu a elaboração de uma tipologia que indica qual ou quais tipos de consciência histórica são predominantes nos discursos de um grupo. Finalmente, discutir com os estudantes como os conceitos estruturadores do pensamento histórico atuam para construir conhecimento, mediado pela consciência histórica subsumida à argumentação, se constitui como a proposição desta pesquisa. Potencializar as ideias históricas através de princípios metodológicos que invistam no desenvolvimento da argumentação é função intransferível do ensino de História e, por isso, conceitos metahistóricos podem ser trabalhados nas aulas do ensino básico, paulatina e progressivamente, como meios pelos quais se articula o pensamento histórico. Dessa forma, a História mostrará como é área do conhecimento fundamental para a geração de reflexão e autorreflexão acerca das experiências humanas. Aprender História com sentido para a Vida. / This research aims at understanding how far the historical thinking of Brazilian and Portuguese students present aspects of a historical consciousness relevant to discuss about Contemporary Historical Culture, in order to answer the question: is it possible to learn History with sense to life?. In other words, the aim of this work is to verify how the History teaching in the public schools in Brazil and Portugal has contributed to the development of a historical consciousness that enables the satisfaction to fulfill the lack of time orientation and identity formation in contemporary society. In order to achieve this goal, data was collected in order to know the different profiles of socioeconomic and cultural of the groups searched, beyond the students narrative about their interpretation of a common historical fact to Brazil and Portugal - the transfer of the Portuguese royal family (1808). This empirical material was analyzed with quantitative and qualitative criteria, guided by the studies on a theoretical epistemology of author experiences from different areas of historical knowledge as the Philosophy of History, the Didactic of History and the History Education. This way of study has enabled the construction of an analysis narrative typology which allows verifying the trends of historical sense formation to time orientation subsumed to groups searched. In other words, the metahistorical exercise done throughout the research allowed the development of a typology that indicates how or what types of historical consciousness are predominant in a group discourse. Finally, discuss with students how the concepts of historical thinking work to build knowledge, mediated by the historical consciousness subsumed to the argument, it is the aim of this research. Improve the historical ideas through methodological principles that invest in developing the argument is indelible function of teaching history and therefore, metahistorical concepts can be worked in class , gradually and progressively, as the means by which articulates historical thought. Thus, history will show how the area of fundamental knowledge is to generate reflection and self reflection about the human experience. Learn History with sense to Life.

In recent years, the Swedish educational system has undergone considerable change. A new curriculum and swift digitization via the implementation of the "one-to-one" system have increased the call for new teaching methods in schools. Previous research indicates that working with primary sources can enhance students’ historical thinking and historical empathy. The present licentiate dissertation aims to investigate Swedish upper secondary school students’ use of critical thinking and historical empathy when utilizing digitized primary sources, such as the parish registers stored in the Demographic Data Base at Umeå University.         Five classes in grades 1-3, comprising 110 students, in the ages 16 to 19, and three teachers participated in the study. The students were assigned with compiling a report based on the digitised primary source material and presenting their findings in a written paper or oral presentation. The study was evaluated through (1) interviews with students and teachers, (2) classroom observation of the students while working with the material, (3) questionnaires on the students´ view of history, and (4) the completed assignments.           The study shows that all the students achieved some result based on the information found in the digitised primary sources. While they applied historical empathy and historical thinking, it was mixed with presentism. The majority did not make use of corroboration, but those who did displayed more examples of historical thinking and historical empathy, primarily evident in grades 2 and 3 and in the free discussions held after the presentations. The students’ perception of primary sources shifted as a result of this exercise: Their preference for using primary sources had increased, although their trust in primary sources had simultaneously decreased. Teachers and students alike were generally satisfied with the assignment but argued that the database needed improvement in order to enhance its usefulness. Over the course of the assignment, students frequently expressed that the individuals in the digitized material came to life for them, generating feelings of empathy.         The study’s contribution to history didactics is twofold. First, it clearly demonstrates how upper secondary students can make use of historical thinking and historical empathy when studying digitised parish records, even though they have difficulty contextualizing their results. Secondly, it provides insight into how Swedish students learn history and the kind of history that interests them. The results are predominantly in agreement with those from previous studies but this study is pioneering in basing its findings on primary sources that are digitised. / En dator till varje elev, det som ofta kallas en-till-en, har skapat nya förutsättningar för undervisning. I denna studie får gymnasieelever arbeta med digitaliserade primärkällor i historieundervisningen. Elevernas förmåga att använda historiskt tänkande, historisk empati och kontextualisering undersöks, och elevernas inställning till historieämnet kartläggs före och efter mötet med de digitaliserade källorna. Samtliga elever klarar av att genomföra sökningar i det digitaliserade källmaterialet, och de uppvisar i högre eller lägre grad historiskt tänkande, historisk empati och kontextualisering under lektionerna och i sina skriftliga och muntliga redovisningar. Elevernas inställning till historieämnet påverkas i viss mån. Främst förändras deras syn på primärkällor.