National Symposium
Building Bridges for Historical Learning: Connecting teacher education and museum education
28-29 March 2011
University of Canberra Convention Centre
Download the symposium program here.
Online registration is available here.
Theme
This symposium will start a conversation between teacher educators and museum educators. It is
founded upon two premises:
- There is still work to be done in the understanding of history education. While we now know a lot about historical literacy and historical thinking, how we transfer these to the classroom is still not fully understood.
- Teacher educators and museum educators have traditionally not shared knowledge, even though they both work to promote historical learning.
The symposium will:
- Facilitate connections between Museum Education and Teacher Education
- Share how each sector goes about teaching historical skills and understandings
- understand how historical literacy and thinking are taught
- Improve the understanding of history education and its purpose
- Understand how artefacts are used to develop historical understanding
- Assist with decoding the discipline of history
- Assist with the development of the signature pedagogy of history
- Improve the quality of history education provided by schools, museums and other cultural institutions
Who should attend?
Teacher Educators, Museum Educators, Interpreters and others interested in this topic are invited to prepare papers around this broad theme.