"Just Imagine ...": Students' perspectives on empathy tasks in secondary history education
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| Publication date | 2015 |
| Journal | International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research |
| Volume | Issue number | 13 | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 69-84 |
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| Abstract | Historical empathy can be helpful when learning history. However, we do not know what students do when completing an empathy-task or how they perceive this type of task. In the explorative study presented in this article, we recognized different types of empathy-tasks, we saw students showing cognitive as well as affective elements in their responses on an empathy task, and we learned that students think that empathy-tasks are mainly useful to remember facts. Students also mentioned comparing the past with the present and imagining other people’s lives as goals of empathy-tasks. |
| Document type | Article |
| Note | 1472-9474 |
| Language | English |
| Other links | https://www.history.org.uk/publications/resource/8728/the-international-journal-volume-13-number-1 |
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