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      ‘No, no, the Cold War was not that dramatic’: A case study on the use of a drama task to promote Dutch secondary school students’ historical imagination

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          Imagining what it was like to live in the past may help secondary school students to understand historical developments and situations. In this case study, the opportunities of a drama task are explored by using a mixed-method approach. In small groups, Dutch 14–15-year-old students examined historical sources and produced a short film clip on daily life in the Netherlands during the Cold War. Results indicated that both the students and their teacher perceived the drama task as motivating. The group discussions were rich in on-task utterances, and the students reported that they thought the task was valuable for gaining insight into thoughts and feelings of people in the past. However, the clips were relatively poor in information, and the assessment proved to be a challenge for the teacher.

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                Journal
                herj
                herj
                History Education Research Journal
                HERJ
                UCL Press (UK )
                2631-9713
                20 April 2021
                : 18
                : 1
                : 28-45
                Affiliations
                [1]University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
                [2]University of Groningen, the Netherlands
                Author notes
                Corresponding author – email: t.l.deleur@ 123456uva.nl
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9410-6994
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5119-121X
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4426-6903
                Article
                10.14324/HERJ.18.1.03
                2a1ac9ec-88d8-4f70-b052-3dd4d26093f4
                Copyright © 2021 De Leur, Van Boxtel and Huijgen

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 16 June 2020
                : 29 October 2020
                Page count
                Tables: 2, References: 52, Pages: 19

                Educational research & Statistics,General education,History
                historical imagination,historical empathy,assessment,drama

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