Professional debates within the international History Didactics
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3311/ope.619Abstract
This study is a research paper that aims at analysing and discussing the most often raised scientific debates that have been taking place recently within the international scholar community on the field of history didactics. The specific goal of the study is to point out and evaluate themes such as decline of time frames devoted to school history teaching, the issue of narrativity in school history teaching, and the post-colonial debate. The author analyses and discusses these professional debates in the contex of recent international scientific conferences and scholarly literature that have been resonating among international researchers on the field of history didactics.Author Biography
Barnabás Vajda
Barnabás Vajda (1970) historian, habilitated university associate professor. His areas of expertise are the Cold War era (international relations) and history didactics. Lecturer at the History Department of the Teacher Training Faculty of Selye János University in North-Komárom, Head of the Doctoral Program in History Didactics.Member of: the External Public Board of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; the Hungarian Historical Society;to the scientific council of the Cold War History Research Center of the Corvinus University of Budapest; and the International History Didactic Society.
