This study developed an online role-playing history education game with real-person NPCs
(Non-Player Characters). The game features real people playing NPC characters, and …

Many nations have experienced conflict over the content of their History curriculum, and
debates over the relative importance of skills (historical thinking) versus content (historical …

This chapter explores the epistemological underpinnings of critical—postmodern,
poststructural, postcolonial, feminist, and psychoanalytic—theories in history education and …

Increasingly, academic teachers are exploring the learning opportunities offered by student-
centred participatory classroom and web-supported exercises. Role-play and gaming …

In the current culture of regulation in higher education and, in turn, the history discipline, it is
timely to problematize discipline standards in relation to student agency and creativity. This …

Most academic historians in Australia are also teachers. Yet history academics have seldom
been as assiduous in researching the traditions of their teaching as they have been in …

IN RECENT YEARS, numerous academic historians have focussed on the ways in which
tertiary teaching can best engage students and develop the complex skills of historical …

This article examines the changing content and purpose of the honours year in history, and
draws attention to the way in which the language of academic standards has required those …

This paper analyses shifts in the representation of history and physics as named
organisational units on Australian university websites over the last 15 years in the context of …

This multi-year collaborative project “Moving Beyond the Threshold” set out to interrogate
what it means to think historically in the digital age. How do university students and teachers …