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Philippa Hunter

Disturbing history's identity in the New Zealand curriculum to free up historical thinking

Journal issue: 
Curriculum Matters 7: 2011
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48
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Author(s): 
Philippa Hunter

This paper conceives history in the New Zealand curriculum as a curriculum problem. In exposing this problem, history’s identity is thrown into question. I outline a motif of disturbance in light of my professional experiences of history curriculum and assessment policy shifts (1990s to 2010). From a critical pedagogy stance, I conceive the national curriculum’s events-based orientation to history as traditional and played out in pedagogy as exclusive cultural reproduction.

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Connecting learners with their pasts as a way into history

Journal issue: 
set 2007: no. 1
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21
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Author(s): 
Philippa Hunter and Bruce Farthing

This article presents evidence of the first activity in a sequence of history pedagogy Thinking About History that engaged learners in connecting to their pasts as a way into history.

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Students think history and teachers learn

Journal issue: 
set 2008: no. 1
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15
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Author(s): 
Phillipa Hunter and Bruce Farthing

How do students understand concepts in school history curriculum and assessment documentation?

"Switched-on" history teachers tap into students' conceptual understandings, promote conversations about the processes of historical research, encourage critical and evaluative thinking, and so develop students' historical consciousness.

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History students voice their thinking: An opening for professional conversations

Journal issue: 
set 2009: no. 3
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52
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Author(s): 
Philippa Hunter and Bruce Farthing

This article explores what a group of Years 11 and 13 students think about history, how they talk about it and what they are interested in studying. It suggests that being aware of student interests and considering how the key competencies relate to history as a subject could open the way for professional conversations about different ways to approach teaching history in high school.

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