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The History Teacher is the QHTA quarterly eJournal, and is available to all members as part of their membership entitlements. The first edition of The History Teacher eJournal is provided below as a sample for prospective members. Future complete editions will only be available to QHTA members from a secure site.
Each edition of The History Teacher eJournal will have a public version posted below that contains a content overview, and brief description of each article. |
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| The History Teacher eJournal, Vol.45, No.1, August 2007 |
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Editorial
This is the first edition of the online version of The History Teacher, QHTA's long-standing professional journal. The decision to move to electronic delivery of The History Teacher was taken after much serious discussion, and not without pangs of regret. |
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| Vol.45, No.1, August 2007 |
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| For years, the publishing of the print version of the journal has swallowed up the bulk of the subscription monies receibed by QHTA, so there were pressing financial reasons for the change. But, like so many other organisations, QHTA also recognised the positive advantages of electronic delivery. The journal can also include visual images in greater numbers and of higher quality, including colour photographs. In this initial edition, the article on 'Anzac Square' demonstrates this by its inclusion of eighteen colour photographs. In future editions, this potential will be exploited more fully. There's also a clear environmental benefit from electronic publishing, obviating the need for printing, collating and mailing about 25,000 pages each edition. For the reader, there's the ease of simply ignoring the electronic link to any article that is not of special interest - no waste of paper there. |
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| Still, it's likely that many readers will miss the familiar printed journal. Like a book or a newspaper, a printed journal offers such handy portability. The new format will ask readers to become used to printing favourite articles to achieve that same portability. But the new journal - with its print-ready pdf format - will also make it so easy to add articles and teaching resources to the collections that virtually every teacher now stores on his or her computer. And printing the pdf's should prove easier than manipulating the printed magazine at the photocopier. |
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| All of this has been made possible by the expertise and energy of Glenn Davies, who has turned the basic Word files into the pdf-format journal you now see. Huge thanks to Glenn |
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Creating a museum
How students can change ideas about the past
Jamie Hay
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Environmental Education is History
The extent to which Modern History education adopts characteristics of socially critical environmental education
Clayton Barry
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Curriculum and Teaching Ideas |
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Palm island Inquiry
Is justice more than skin deep?
Jo-Anne Cameron and Emma Paige
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Curriculum materials: Creating a museum
How students can change ideas about the past
Jamie Hay
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Reading Anzac Square
Adding insight to a history excursion
Brian Hoepper
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Meditations on Marcus Aurelius
A proposal for a Year 12 Ancient History unit
Jo-Anne Cameron
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Getting your students ready for Category One
Extended Writing in Response to Historical Evidence
Michelle Brown |
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Reviews
Twentieth century History 1900-1945, History Teachers' Association of Victoria, 2006
Twentieth Century History 1945-2000, History Teachers' Association of Victoria, 2007
Jackson, L. et.al. 2007, Humanities Alive - History 2, Jacaranda Learning Essentials, John Wiley & Sons, Milton
Maaz, J. et.al. 2007, Humanities Alive - Geography 2, Jacaranda Learning Essentials, John Wiley & Sons, Milton
Pausewang, Gudrun. 2006, Dark Hours, translated by John Brownjohn, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest |
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QHTA resource for sale
Studies of Conflict. Harold v William 1066
Kay Bishop
This booklet is a source based inquiry into the conflict between King Harold of England and William of Normandy, culminating in the battle of Hastings in 1066. The organisation of the material is based on the Aspects of Inquiry, as set out in the Queensland Ancient History Syllabus. There are sections on the background of the conflict and the strengths and weaknesses of the available sources. Each Chapter has a wide range of primary sources and tasks for students based on the sources. |
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| Complete editions of the QHTA History Teacher eJournal will only be available to members from a secure site. Please enjoy the first edition as a sample. |
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| The History Teacher eJournal, Vol.45, No.2, October 2007 |
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Editorial
We hope you all enjoyed the first eJournal and that you will find this one interesting and informative. Thanks to Brian Hoepper and Glenn Davies for their work in preparing the material and organising our initial eJournal on the web site. It is so refreshing to be able to view quality coloured photos in the article on Anzac Square and this development will open up new opportunities for members to view materials more effectively and use the materials in the classroom.
It was easy to zero in on a couple of articles and put them in the relevant folders on a hard drive while keeping the whole eJournal on hand in its own folder. No more sorting through past journals looking for that article you know is there somewhere. It is so much quicker to use a few clicks of the mouse to find that article.
Have you thought of contributing some of your own material to the eJournal? Panel Members often comment on the many wondeful assessment items they see, which obviously followed excellent teaching practices. We really need to develop a culture of community sharing of resources so that beginning teachers and experienced teachers alike can inject fresh ideas into their teaching practices. So let's hear from you soon. |
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| Vol.45, No.2, October 2007 |
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In this edition
In this edition there are several items which can be accessed by all visitors to the QHTA website but most of the articles can only be accessed by members. We have several academic articles to stimulate your interest and some interesting teaching activities. There is also information to help you all keep up with what is happening on the local and national scene. |
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| The most important event on the national scene recently has been the publication to the Media of John Howard's proposal for the study of Australian history for Years 9 and 10. This proposal contains a list of topics and perspectives which must be included in the new Australian History course. A copy of it can be found on the Education Minister's website. Both major parties have committed themselves to a mandated Australian History course and Labor's policy on this can be found on the Shadow Education Minister, Stephen Smith's, website. |
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| A response to the issue of a mandated course in Australian History is still being hotly debated by academics, teachers, the media, politicians and the general public. QHTA's response to the issues surrounding the proposals for an Australian History Course can be viewed on the following site - https://olt.qut.edu.au/udf/sunpro/gen/index.cfm?fa=dispHomePage Scroll down to the History Summit link. |
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| If you are looking for some activities for your Years 9 and 10 students at the end of the year, why not consider the Simpson Prize. There is an item in this edition in the Jottings section on the (Simpson Prize) which should help you get started. Click on Jottings to read this article and an article on the National History Challenge 2007, which lists the State Winners in the various categories. |
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| Kay Bishop & Ros Korkatzis, Editors |
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My Grandmother's trip to New Guinea - photo albums, visual histories and memory
Dr Max Quanchi
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| This article is the text of an address Dr Quanchi gave in Dunedin and it explores the role of photo albums in helping to fill in the silences which often occur in colonial history. Dr Quanchi focuses on not merely individual photos but how photos are arranged in groups in albums and what these arrangements might indicate about families over time. Below is the beginning of Dr Quanchi's article. The full article is accessible only to members. |
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| In 1939, after returning to Australia, a bank officer and his wife compiled two albums recording their life on Samarai island in southeast Papua; forty years later in 1972, a member of a touring party organized by a Lions Club, created a "New Guinea" album of her trip around TPNG. Treated here as bookends to the many thousands of albums pasted-up after similar trips, short and long careers, and tourist stopovers, do these albums reveal anything new about the colonial era in the Pacific? This paper examines the narrative links, the mnemonic signature, and the colonialism embedded in the taking (or purchase), selecting, sequencing, juxtaposing and pasting-up of photographs. Because albums are deliberately structured - chronologically, geographically or thematically, but often randomly, disordered, partial, and incomplete - they have the potential to connect us with the past and to stories of expatriate and indigenous life in the Pacific. Martha Langford noted in her Suspended conversations in 2001, the first major study of family, travel and commemorative albums, that albums are full of internal references, but the compilers - aware of their audience - also clumsily and randomly apply generic, stylistic conventions to situate and provide a start and end to their story. Langford also reminds us that the showing of an album is a performance, or what we might call educative, visual, learning-by-looking. As very few archives collect albums, historians must now ask where have albums disappeared to, and why are repositories not collecting those that remain? Today, we need to uncover albums that remain in rarely opened cupboards, bookshelves and suitcases, and catalogue and preserve them as visual evidence of the colonial era. |
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A Roadmap for History's Future
Associate Professor Tony Taylor
This is a reprint of an article from The Age, 10 September 2007
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| In this article, Professor Taylor expresses his views on the importance of the discipline of history as a stand-alone subject, rather than as a part of Studies of Society and Environment. Professor Taylor has been involved in the on-going debate about the teaching of Australian History since he authored the review of history in 1999 - The Future of the Past. He has addressed various groups of teachers, first at QHTA's State Conference in June and then more recently at HTAA's National Conference in Sydney in early October. |
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Tiberius Gracchus - Reactionary or Revolutionary?
Alan Dale
Former Head of History, Brisbane Girls' Grammar School, and now Dean of Studies at Girls' Grammar |
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| This article explores the issues surrounding the tumultuous year when Tiberius Gracchus became tribune in Rome 133BC. Issues relating to his motives, his methods and the different views historians have of him are included. This article would serve as support for the later teaching ideas article on writing a Category 1 Essay, because it uses Tiberius Gracchus as an example. |
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Writing a Category 1 Essay for the Queensland Ancient History Syllabus
Kay Bishop
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| This article continues the issues raised in the previous eJournal by Jo-Anne Cameron and Michelle Brown. In the previous articles, both Jo-Anne and Michelle outlined strategies to assist students to prepare for the Category 1 Essay Test. This article presents a sample Category 1 Essay, using a hypothesis on Tiberius Gracchus. This is an annotated essay with sources and commentary. |
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| Who Killed Captain Logan? - a History Mystery |
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| This is a reprint of a collection of sources provided by Drew Hutton in a very early edition of QHTA's History Teacher, with additional modifications and student activities provided by Eric Frangenheim of Rodin Educational Consultancy. It is particularly suited to Years 9 and 10 and provides ways of helping students to use and evaluate sources. |
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A Lesson Learned in Time - "With Courage Let Us All Combine"
Alidia Lee
Year 10, Somerville House, winner of the State and National Year 9/10 National History Challenge and State Winner of the Special Australia/Asia Category |
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| This is the text of Alidia's winning essay. It demonstrates a level of professionalism in history writing which should be an example to all students. The judges were impressed with the level of research, indicated in the sophisticated and detailed bibliography. |
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Reviews
Since the Christmas holidays will soon be here, our reviews this time are focused on two mystery novels, both by the same author, which use family history and locations around Brisbane as their background. The first, Loose Ends, begins with a reference to family photo albums, a fitting link to our article by Max Quanchi, while the second, Rockhound, continues the adventures of the character in the first novel. |
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Resources
We are beginning a review of our resources so that we can continue to assist history teachers throughout the State. Some of our resources are becoming somewhat dated, even though they are still very useful. Some will have a major review while others may very well be scrapped completely.
Kay Bishop has written a new resource which has been advertised in the last eJournal, Studies of Conflict, William v Harold, and she is currently working on a new resource, Studies of Power, Augustus and One-Man Power in Rome. Hopefully, this will be ready for the 2008 school year. Purchasing prices and ordering information are available on the website. |
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| The History Teacher eJournal, Vol.46, No.1, April 2008 |
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Editorial
The first eJournal for the year is finally here.
This edition includes information on the Simpson Prize and the National History Challenge. For the first time the Challenge was launched at the Museum of Brisbane on Monday, 28th April. The details of entry are included in this edition - and there is an incentive!
We have included a Report just released of a research project comparing History Teaching in Australia and Canada. This project considers the ways students and teachers engage with Australian and Canadian history. The challenges for those of us who teach and prepare future teachers of history in these countries are very familiar.
A second article continues this theme but focuses particularly on teacher preparation. Rowan Smith ponders on the relationship between the history knowledge of teachers and the engagement of students. We also include an article by Tony Taylor. This article is a revised version of his keynote address at the Australian National University Research School of Social Sciences Conference in December 2007. It provides a valuable retrospective of the 2006-2007 history debates.
The eJournal also contains a Table that provides a Scope and Sequence for developing History skills across years 8 to 12. This provides a really useful teaching guide for a developmental approach to planning school curriculum in history. |
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| Finally can we encourage you to consider providing the QHTA or encouraging your contacts to contribue accounts of your best practice ideas or scholarly papers in the field of history education. Forms for submitting the latter are provided below. |
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| Look forward to hearing from you - and of course don't forget those dates for the National History Conference in Brisbane later this year! |
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Winner of the Simpson Prize, Oliver Kersnovski from Kingaroy State High School and teacher-chaperon, Carmel Harman - Caboolture State High School - will celebrate Anzac Day in Gallipoli, where Oliver will read one of the lessons during the service at Lone Pine on 25th April, after attending the Dawn Service at Anzac Cove.
Together, with the runner-up, Stephanie Ferguson from St Stephen's College at Coomera, the three spent two days in Canberra recently. After the ceremony in the Federal Parliament, where they received their medallions and certificates from Veterans' Affairs Minister, the Hon Allen Griffitn, they toured behind the scenes in the Parliament, then the various galleries of the War Memorial, the Treloar Annex [conservation and preservation laboratories of the War Memorial], and the National Museum of Australia. The deputy-commandant of Duntroon was their host at a formal dinner at the Gallipoli Barracks.
If you would like to read Oliver's and Stephanie's prize-winning essays, then click on http://www.simpsonprize.org
We are still awaiting confirmation from the Department of Education, Employment and Work Relations as to whether the Simpson Prize will continue. If it does, then the topic is likely to deal with the end of World War 1, as we commemorate its ending 90 years ago. |
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Ros Korkatzis
QHTA Simpson Prize representative
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2008 Winners
[l to r - Carmel Harman, Stephanie Ferguson, Oliver Kersnovski - War Memorial] |
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Losing the plot: a structured narrative of root and branch renewal
Associate Professor Tony Taylor
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| Shortly after the 2007 general election, Tony Taylor witnessed, along with approximately 130,000 fellow readers of The Australian, an Oz Golden Moment. |
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A Comparative Study of History Teaching in Australia and Canada
Anna Clark
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| History teaching is a puzzle in Australia and Canada. The question is why: why do so many Australian and Canadian students continue to write off their national history as 'boring', when anxious public debates over the past seem to be anything but that? The answer lies in the classroom itself. Wider historical contests fill media space and capture public attention, but do little to explain how history is taught and learnt in schools. Using interviews from around Australia and Canada, this qualitative research project explores the ways students and teachers think about their nation's history. |
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Developing History Skills across the School
Michelle Brown
Albany Creek State High School
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Inspiring Students with Australian History
Rowan Smith
Fairhills High School
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| The teaching of Australian history is the political agenda in order to re-engage supposedly alienated youth. Such an approach is fraught as what is included and omitted and how it is taught becomes someone's value judgement. The model fails to understand the reality of engaging Australian history teaching. Australian history is no longer popular with students due to lack of genuine commitment to proper history teaching in schools on many levels. Effective engagement of students is about knowledge, empathy and enthusiasm and the imparting of our inspirational national narratives. We must learn from our Indigenous story tellers, the power of the narrative to create a sense of values; belongining; empowerment and then the skills of the historian will develop from such engagement. |
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| Davies, Dr Glenn, 2008, Ancient Rome for Senior Students, Thompson, Australia, 103 pages RRP $29.95 |
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| Bowman, Robyn, 2008, Ancient Greece for Senior Students, Thompson, Australia. 106 pages RRP $29.95 |
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Australian Heritage Magazine, Hallmark Editions
Kay Bishop
President QHTA
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Studies of Conflict. Harold v William 1066
Kay Bishop |
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| This booklet is a source based inquiry into the conflict between King Harold of England and William of Normandy, culminating in the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The organisation of the material is based on the Aspects of Inquiry, as set out in the Queensland Ancient History Syllabus. There are sections on the background of the conflict and the strengths and weaknesses of the available sources. Each Chapter has a wide range of primary sources and tasks for students based on the sources. |
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Studies of Power - Augustus and the Rise of One Man Power in Rome
Kay Bishop
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| This is a 60 page book exploring the nature of Augustus' power in Rome and his impact on traditional Roman institutions. There are extensive activities based on sources and textual commentary. This new resource will be available in the next few weeks. Check the QAHTA website for costs and an order form. |
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The History Teacher print journal content lists |
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| The History Teacher was the QHTA journal. The last hardcopy journal was published in February 2007. The content pages of past History Teacher journals are available for perusal below. If one is of interest, please contact the QHTA Executive Officer at qhta@qhta.com.au |
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QHTA is seeking to publish articles and examples of classroom practice which will be of interest to teachers of history in Queensland. Contributions may take many forms. They may be:
- letters to the editor
- reviews of available resources, including books, computer software and videos
- research papers relevant to the theory, content and practice of history teaching
- examples of assessment instruments and levls of student achievements and/or examples of classroom activities and practice
Contributions should be emailed to qhta@qhta.com.au If this is not possible, a hard copy along with the text on CDROM should be sent to:
The Editor
QHTA
PO Box 1029
New Farm Q 4055
The QHTA is also willing to advertise conferences and seminars to the members of the QHTA in the eNewsletter
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