Using the past to orientate on the present and the future can be seen as one of history’s main contributions to educating future citizens of democratic societies. Because teachers often lack useful methods for pursuing this goal, this study explores three pedagogical approaches that may help them making connections between the past, the present and the future: working with longitudinal lines (LL), with enduring human issues (EHI) and with historical analogies (HA). The efficacy of these approaches was examined in three case studies conducted in two Dutch secondary schools with eighth- to tenth-grade students (N=135) and their teachers (N=4) as participants. Explorations took place within the boundaries of the existing history curriculum and in close collaboration with the teachers who participated because they felt a need to motivate their students by means of a pedagogy to make history more useful. Findings suggest that implementing the LL- and EHI-approaches in a traditional history curriculum with chronologically ordered topics is more complicated than implementing the HA-approach. The HA-approach appears to have more potential to encourage students to use historical knowledge in present-day contexts than the other two approaches. In terms of students’ appraisals of the relevance of history, the application of the EHI-approach showed positive effects.
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Grant legt de nadruk op de verschillen tussen docenten bij het behandelen van een onderwerp. Die verschillen bestaan als het gaat om de inhoud en de didactische aanpak van de stof. Het onderwerp waarbij Grant dit onderzocht was de burgerrechtenbeweging in de V.S. vanaf de jaren ‟50. Grant heeft twee doelen met zijn artikel. Ten eerste wil hij kijken naar hoe docenten denken over de stof en hun mening over de mogelijkheden van scholieren om te begrijpen waarom ze een bepaalde leermethode toepassen. Daarnaast wil hij de gevolgen die dit heeft voor onderwijsbeleid en professionele ontwikkeling van docenten in kaart brengen. Hoe docenten denken over een bepaald onderwerp en hoe zij denken over de mogelijkheden van hun leerlingen heeft volgens Grant gevolgen voor de door de docent in de les gehanteerde onderwijsmethode. De standplaatsgebondenheid van de docent wordt onder andere bepaald door de visie van de docent op de stof en op zijn leerlingen
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The impact of organized youth sport on youth development depends on various conditions in the pedagogical climate, such as how sport is delivered by youth sport coaches. While this is broadly acknowledged and provides a basis to improve youth sport and its developmental outcomes, little is known about the pedagogical perspectives of youth coaches on their practice. This study uses semi-structured interviews with 32 youth sport coaches in diverse youth sport contexts in the Netherlands. Reflexive data analysis is employed to garner insights into coaches’ role perceptions, coaching goals, and underlying values. The findings show that while youth coaches focus on sport-centered activities, many foreground non-sport dimensions such as life mentoring and working towards social inclusion as critical elements of their work, reflected in five pedagogically-oriented goals: discipline, autonomy, resilience, social abilities, and aspirations. Underlying these goals are pedagogical values such as building and maintaining caring relationships with participants. These goals and values echo scientific literature on pedagogical sport climate conditions (e.g. positive youth development), and challenge notions of youth sport as a performance-oriented and uncaring setting. The results contribute to existing knowledge about youth coaches’ pedagogical orientations, and inform the development of strategies to stimulate positive sport practices and developmental outcomes for participants.
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