This paper presents a theoretical analysis of the concept of historical consciousness. It
argues that a focus on the epistemological problems concerning historical consciousness …

This compilation thesis contains an introductory chapter and four original articles. The
studies comprising this thesis all concern aspects of how historical culture is constituted in …

Historical consciousness is regarded as an important means to stimulate moral citizens
through history education. This article conceptually examines the moral dimension …

International cooperation in history teaching and related teacher education requires
clarification of terminology as well as of underlying concepts and theoretical foundations …

This thesis by publication contains an introductory summary chapter and three papers. The
first paper presents a study of how the concept of historical consciousness has been …

The ongoing discussion about what constitutes historical consciousness is intensifying
within the growing international community of history-education researchers. What started as …

Historical consciousness is the central concept in Swedish history education and the aim of
history teaching in Swedish schools is to develop students' historical consciousness. In 2015 …

The present study explores the reception of historical feature films in history education. It is
concerned with how pupils experience the films as well as the significance of the feature film …

This paper presents an analysis of how leading Swedish historian and history didactical
researcher Klas-Göran Karlsson presents the concept of historical consciousness in some of …

The concept of Historical Consciousness which played a prominent role in modernising
history education in many countries was introduced into the debate of history education in …