Tackling A-level students’ misconceptions about historical interpretations and the historiography of Scottish witchcraft
Teaching History article
‘History has some truth, but we are not told the real truth’
Maya Stiasny was troubled by a stubbornly persistent flaw in her A-level students’ conception of historical interpretations. Students were seeing historians’ arguments as snapshots in time, emerging magically and unproblematically out of personal views, rather than crafted as a process. Stiasny wanted her students to understand that process as an academically rigorous method. In the context of the historiography of witchcraft, Stiasny found a way to show that historical interpretations do not exist in a vacuum; they are crafted through a long journey of evidential reasoning and they are intricately connected to other historians’ scholarship...
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