Teaching Responsibility
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Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Workshop
Module Offerings
6125HIST
Aims
To enable students to engage in a critical debate about the historiography associated with key events in Irish history.
To enable students to engage with different methods of teaching history to different audiences. This will raise students' awareness of a wide range of perspectives and to offer them the opportunity to interpret complex sources from a variety of viewpoints. As part of this students will be introduced to a number of relevant concepts, theories and historical methodologies.
To enable students to critically assess and contextualise the way in which the 1798 Rebellion, the Great Irish Famine and the 1916 Easter Rising have been commemorated and celebrated by later generations.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Apply a rigorous appraisal of how and why past events have commemorated, celebrated and recalled by later generations
2.
Critically evaluate a wide and diverse range of source material (including press, speeches, letters, films, music, tv)
3.
Critically analyse Irish historiography
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Introduction to issues surrounding celebration and commemoration of the past.
How, why and where we teach history?
1798 Rebellion
1798 Rebellion – commemoration
Great Irish Famine
Great Irish Famine – commemoration
1916 Easter Rising
1916 Commemoration
Visible & invisible history
Module Overview:
The aim of this module will enable you to engage in a critical debate about the historiography associated with key events in Irish history. You will engage with different methods of teaching history to different audiences to critically assess the way in which the 1798 Rebellion, the Great Irish Famine and the 1916 Easter Rising have been commemorated and celebrated by later generations.
The aim of this module will enable you to engage in a critical debate about the historiography associated with key events in Irish history. You will engage with different methods of teaching history to different audiences to critically assess the way in which the 1798 Rebellion, the Great Irish Famine and the 1916 Easter Rising have been commemorated and celebrated by later generations.
Additional Information:Ireland is in the middle of its Decade of Centenaries and Commemorations (2013-2023) so this is an opportune time to examine how significant events in Irish history have been both celebrated and commemorated by later generations. This module offers students an opportunity to engage with events both as they unfolded and as they have been recalled.
Students will examine how, where and why we study history. They will consider how Irish history has been imparted through a range of sources including school text books, documentaries, films, museums, streetscapes, memorials, festivals etc.
Students will consider three case studies: the 1798 Rebellion, the Great Irish Famine (1845-1849) and the 1916 Easter Rising. They will examine the events themselves and they will assess how they have been remembered/commemorated/memorialised and manipulated by later generations.
Assessments
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