Call for papers 2023 2nd Semester

HISTÓRIA - REVISTA DA FLUP - NUMBER 13 - 2nd SEMESTER, IV SERIES, 2023

Thematic journal issue: “History Education: themes, debates and combats”

Deadline for submissions: 30th of June 2023

Thematic Dossier coordination: Cláudia Pinto Ribeiro, Helena Vieira, Pedro Teixeira
Pereira

The journal also accepts articles for the “Other Studies” and “Critical Reviews” sections.

The journal accepts the publication of articles in the following languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.

       It can be said that never before has History education taken up such a relevant role in the debates about the place that School occupies in the construction of a society which, not being better than the previous ones, is at least able to tackle, competently and swiftly, the challenges that lie ahead: climate changes, cleavages and frictions between social groups, voluntary and compulsory migrations, rise and/or strengthening of political extremism(s), responsible practice of citizenship… There are so many challenges and pressing matters (or socially alive, resorting to the successful concept proposed by Alain Legardez and Laurence Simoneaux, 2006), that become priorities to the School’s agenda, in which, often, History is invited to take part in the discussion, mainly as responsible for the “product” rather than becoming fundamental to the whole “process”.

        Reviewing the initial statement of the previous paragraph, we would be wrong if considering that the relevance of Historical education is a recent trend (or merely a trend at all). The fact that education historians – but not limited to – are rarely invited to take part in decision-making of public policies about what is taught and how History is taught, it does not mean that their absence is not noticed by those who realise that, “all is evidence in the texts and debates, in policies and in educational reforms. No one has doubts.” And António Nóvoa is very clear when stating such, in his Evidentemente. História da Educação (2005).

        Cast away, therefore, from other stages, HISTÓRIA – REVISTA DA FLUP constitutes a privileged forum to gather the contribution of authors who want to collaborate in the organisation of a dossier centered on the matter of, “History Education: themes, debates and combats”.

         Therefore, all those interested in submitting proposals for articles that encompass any chronology and/or geography are invited. The goal is, precisely, to present the reader with a varied array of articles which read altogether offer a diversified perspective on History education, the research and the experiences in and beyond the classroom, the usages and abuses perpetrated with/by History, the textbooks and the curricula, the teachers’ training, with a particular focus on the specified disciplinary field. The intersection of the different contributions will certainly produce new avenues and meanings about what we can and should expect from History as an academic area, but also as a knowledge ground which acts within the public sphere and which is constantly being checked for its accountability.

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