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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20702| Title: | What should history teachers do when historians do not agree? |
| Authors: | Vella, Yosanne |
| Keywords: | History -- Study and teaching -- Malta History teachers -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta. Faculty of Education |
| Citation: | Vella, Y. (2015). What should history teachers do when historians do not agree? [Commentary]. Malta Review of Educational Research, 9(2), 397-403 |
| Abstract: | History teachers are accustomed to historians hardly ever agreeing! By its very nature history is not a quest to find the ultimate truth but it is a never ending investigation and the most a historian can hope for is to provide a valid interpretation based on reliable evidence. However, there are then those moments in history academic studies where historians do not just provide mildly different interpretations but they disagree in a spectacular way, and that is when history becomes terribly interesting and exciting. This is what makes history special and these strong disagreements provide great learning opportunities in the classroom which good history teachers use to their full potential. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/20702 |
| ISSN: | 17269725 |
| Appears in Collections: | MRER, Volume 9, Issue 2 MRER, Volume 9, Issue 2 Scholarly Works - FacEduLHE |
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