Problematised history pedagogy as action research in preservice secondary teacher education

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ID5828538
AuthorsP Hunter (0000-0002-8494-2817, University of Waikato, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume27
Issue5
Pages742-757
Publication date2018-06-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Action Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0965-0792 • E-ISSN: 1747-5074
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09650792.2018.1485590
OpenAlexW2808629081
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

A critical pedagogy stance involving reflexivity and critique of Aotearoa New Zealand's history curriculum informed a participatory action research methodology of problematised history pedagogy (PHP). Conceptualised as layered and reciprocal, the PHP was nested as a 'case' of action research at the heart of narrative inquiry. The PHP was situated in a year's curriculum course in secondary teacher education, and activated participants' phenomenological empathy, genealogical disclosure, and discursive self-fashioning. This involved life-storying, critical discourse analysis of history texts, and PHP interventions with students in history classrooms. A dismantling analysis deconstructed participants' historical thinking and revealed something of their discursive production. Recognition of pedagogic identities, embodiment, and the seeking of authentic selves played out through the critical project. As a professionally challenging process, the PHP depended on mutual goodwill and careful reading of participants' readiness, attitudes, and unique capabilities. The research was also dependent on the professional expertise of colleagues in schools. My interpretive authority as a researcher involved multiple selves as teacher, advocate, and writer. The provoking of more critical approaches in what we do and why in history pedagogy, and the enhancing of practitioner capabilities, supports the PHP as a useful research methodology in initial teacher education

Action research · Aotearoa · Critical discourse analysis · Critical literacy · Critical pedagogy · Critical theory · Reflexivity · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Geography Education and Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism

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