History education and democratic consciousness in Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12737490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nimrod Tal (0000-0002-4995-9605, Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-84 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Citizenship Social and Economics Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2047-1734 • E-ISSN: 2047-1734 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14788047251315698 |
| OpenAlex | W4407373604 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
The article examines how Israeli state-secular education integrates the principle of continuity and change through human agency into its history curriculum, in order to cultivate democratic consciousness. Drawing on theorists such as John Dewey, Marc Bloch, and Peter Seixas, it evaluates the curriculum's potential, or its lack thereof, to promote the understanding that democracy is constantly shaped by human actions. The article argues that, while the curriculum emphasises democratic values across various chapters from ancient times to the late twentieth century, it faces challenges in fostering historical consciousness that encourages students to act as agents of democratic change. Particularly, critical issues like relations between Jews and Arabs, or the tension between the country's Jewish and democratic identities are often neglected or not historicised, undermining a comprehensive view of modern Israeli society as a product of its history
Consciousness · Democracy · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Peace and Human Rights Education · Philosophy
Re/reading the past
Democratic Education for Social Studies
Critical Discourse Analysis
Recovered Roots
Education and Conflict
Democratic education in the fourth generation of deliberative democracy
Beyond the curriculum
Controversial issues in history teaching
Theorizing Historical Consciousness
An impossible pluralism? European jews and oriental Jews in the Israeli history curriculum
Preparing to Teach a Slavery Past
A Model of Historical Thinking
On historical thinking and the history educational challenge
Let My People In
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |