Departing from the pioneering work of VanSledright and Maggioni (2016), this article revisits
questions about epistemic beliefs and the role these beliefs play in the teaching and …

Teachers' epistemic beliefs may have consequences for their pedagogical work. We used
previously developed scales to assess epistemic beliefs that teachers hold about learning …

This article looks at upper secondary school history teachers' understandings of how
historical knowledge is constructed and at the impact this might have on their classroom …

Over the last 50 years, the school subject of history has increasingly been described as a
subject about interpretation and multi-perspectivism. Discussing the subject this way might …

En el marco de la defensa de la enseñanza de la historia con base en el pensamiento
histórico, parece haberse prestado más atención a la aplicación de las competencias que a …

This article reports a local study of the presence of history as a subject in the kindergartens
of Kristiansand, a municipality in southern Norway. There is no syllabus for history in the …

This introduction establishes the framework of the book. It introduces some basic concepts of
epistemology in history and history teaching, a brief overview of the field, and the problems …

This study aims to explore how elementary school teachers' beliefs about the nature of
history and pedagogical beliefs about teaching history developed over the course of a two …

Epistemic beliefs about history can have a profound impact on the way students understand
and approach this discipline in the classroom. During the last decades, significant efforts …

Controversial issues are often regarded as abundant in history education. Most topics can
be regarded as controversial in one way or another. The purpose of this article is to analyse …