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Paul Holthuis

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    Students’ historical contextualization and the cold war
    with Tim Huijgen, Carla van Boxtel, Wim van De Grift, and Cor Suhre
    British Journal of Educational Studies 67 (4): 439-468. 2019.
    This exploratory study presents an example of how a historical contextualization framework can be used to develop and implement a lesson unit on Cold War events. The effects of the lesson unit on students’ ability to perform historical contextualization are explored in a quasi-experimental pre-test–post-test design with an experimental (n = 96) and a control (n = 73) condition. The students’ answers on a historical contextualization test were analysed. The results indicate that students in the e…Read more
    Philosophy of Education
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    Promoting historical contextualisation in classrooms: an observational study
    with Tim Huijgen, Carla van Boxtel, and Wim van de Grift
    Educational Studies 45 (4): 456-479. 2018.
    ABSTRACTThe aim of this observational study is to explore how history teachers promote historical contextualisation in their lessons. Historical contextualisation is the ability to situate phenomen...