Narrative and analytical interplay in history texts: recalibrating the historical recount genre
Autor: | Bjorn Kindenberg |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Zdroj: | Journal of Curriculum Studies. 54:85-104 |
ISSN: | 1366-5839 0022-0272 |
DOI: | 10.1080/00220272.2021.1919763 |
Popis: | Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) informed genre theory, this paper investigates the interplay between narrative and analytical representations of the past in texts used for history-educational purposes. In this paper, it is argued that the role of narrative merits further attention in history genre descriptions. Thirteen history texts, selected from a lower secondary history-instructional unit about European colonization, are examined. The examination of stages, narrative elements, and the way historical significance is expressed in these texts arrives at a re-calibration of the historical recount genre suggesting four distinct historical recount types with different configurations of a narrative-analytical interplay. The findings have implications for our understanding of the role of narrative elements in history texts, and further for genre-based approaches to instruction that concern reading and writing history texts. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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