Teaching History for the Contemporary World

Dr Adele Nye is a Senior Lecturer in Contextual Studies in the School of Education at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW. She is a specialist in History education in universities. She was the primary researcher in an ALTC funded national project called Historical Thinking in Higher Education. She is a member of the Australasian HIST-SoTL committee. She is the editor, with Jennifer Clark, of Teaching the Discipline of History in an Age of Standards (Springer, 2018).Professor Jennifer Clark is currently Head of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. She has taught History in universities for over 25 years. She is a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (UNE) and a national Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. She has been a partner on two ALTC/OLT grants exploring discipline standards. She is the editor, with Adele Nye, of Teaching the Discipline of History in an Age of Standards (Springer, 2018).

“The authors are adamant that teaching history should have a social justice and activism agenda. … I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend sections of it for foundational courses to my colleagues, post-secondary teachers, and students of history.” (Heather Gray Lamm, JACANZS, Vol. 2, September, 2022)

• 1 Diversity in the discipline: Teaching history for the contemporary world.- Section The Academic World.- 2 The theory: Intellectual origins of the social justice agenda in history.- 3 The academy: Challenges for teaching history amid structural racism.- 4 The curriculum: Decolonising the curriculum.- 5 The students: Foregrounding difference.- Section 2 Ways of teaching.- 6 Perspective: Teaching indigenous history.- 7 Immersion: Study tours and international cross-cultural understanding.- 8 Technology: New data, new questions.- 9 Empathy: The importance of emotion.- Section 3 Contemporay tensins.- 10 Gender and intersectionality.- 11 Refugees and migration.- 12 Globalisation.- 13 Environment.- 14 Ethics.- 15 Citizenship.- Section 4 Legacy of their learning.- 16 Employability.- 17 The student experience.