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Dear Elise, I was very pleased to see your and Michael’s emails, and look forward to hearing what others are doing! We have been working on a national scoping study ‘Historical Thinking in Higher Education’ which has involved giving questionnaires to 1455 undergraduate history students and semi-structured interviews with 50 historians at 12 Australian universities. We were interested to see what the students thought about historical thinking – what it is, what skills are especially helpful in developing it, and what the social benefits might be – and then to look at how these perceptions are similar to, or differ from, the views of the historians who teach them. And in turn see what disciplinary challenges / opportunities arose. In terms of methodology – primarily a combination of grounded theory, qualitative and collaborative, participatory action model – where a number of academic staff participated as subjects and as researchers. I used Nvivo software for coding. We have been largely influenced by Peter Seixas, Sam Wineburg, Peter Lee and Jorn Rüsen. Our current report is available online for anyone interested. We certainly welcome any comments on it. http://www.theaha.org.au/newsletters/2009/newsletter14.htm#REPORT all the best Adele Dr Adele Nye Researcher in Historical Thinking Department of Modern History Macquarie University Sydney, NSW Australia
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