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“Frost still clings to the shadows”: Port Arthur, convict history, pedagogy, and place
Citation
Brett, P, 'Frost still clings to the shadows': Port Arthur, convict history, pedagogy, and place, International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, 9, (4) pp. 33-46. ISSN 1835-2014 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.18848/1835-2014/cgp/v09i04/33-46
Abstract
The focus question grounding this paper is "How can teachers use a visit to Port Arthur to promote historical and critical thinking and develop the capacity of upper primary children to make meaning from their affective experience at a site of human suffering?" The interpretational qualitative data drawn upon for the paper comes from second year pre-service primary teachers writing about past visits to Port Arthur as part of a unit introducing them to the aims and purposes of humanities and social sciences education, including History. The paper makes use of the education students’ assignments to analyse the potential of Port Arthur to engage the emotions in developing a critical and empathetic approach to the past. The paper advocates for teachers to implement a sophisticated place-based pedagogy that foregrounds affective history and emotional responses to a site of punishment.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | history education, place-based pedagogy, memory, affect, emotion |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Curriculum and pedagogy |
Research Field: | Humanities and social sciences curriculum and pedagogy (excl. economics, business and management) |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Teaching and curriculum |
Objective Field: | Pedagogy |
UTAS Author: | Brett, P (Dr Peter Brett) |
ID Code: | 109011 |
Year Published: | 2016 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2016-05-17 |
Last Modified: | 2018-03-29 |
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