The Students: Foregrounding Difference

Abstract

This chapter discusses ways of creating history classrooms and courses that are accessible to students who are minoritised by society, whether as a result of their heritage, gender, sexuality or class background, as well as those who face physical, emotional and neurological barriers to normative learning environments. It argues that actively considering how to make a classroom a safe space in which to learn is part of a radical pedagogy that resists the neo-liberalisation of higher education. Although questions of access and ‘safe spaces’ apply to every discipline, this chapter highlights the ways in which they relate to history in particular.

Citation

Gust, O. (2021). The Students: Foregrounding Difference. In Teaching History for the Contemporary World: Tensions, Challenges and Classroom Experiences in Higher Education (43-55). Singapore: Springer

• Online Publication Date: Apr 18, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Sep 28, 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 43-55
• Book Title: Teaching History for the Contemporary World: Tensions, Challenges and Classroom Experiences in Higher Education
• Chapter Number: 4
• ISBN: 978-981-16-0246-7
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5070410
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-0247-4_4
• Contract Date: Oct 22, 2020