Addressing Competing Historical Narratives in a Diverse Classroom

Are you aware how you construct historical narratives? Do you understand your own bias in organising and highlighting specific historic events? Do you understand how your students construct a historical narrative based on their own experiences in life?

In diverse classrooms some historical topics can be quite sensitive. Discussing these subjects may sometimes even lead to heated debates, where emotions seem to be more important than sound arguments based on evidence. In some cases the history teacher might be reluctant to address these topics, because they don’t know how to deal with these emotions. This workshops tries to provide tools, not only how to understand these emotions and the narratives behind them, but also how to incorporate them as an explicit element in your classroom while maintaining a safe learning environment.