Effective Teaching Approaches for History in Primary School
Channel: EuroClio European Association of History Educators
Date: 2021-07-16

In the keynote lecture, Marjan de Groot Reuvekamp introduces the results of her research on Effective Teaching Approaches for History in Primary School. 
This lecture examines factors that influence primary school pupils’ learning performances with regard to historical knowledge and skills. This study was carried out at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam in preparation for research into the level of pupils’ performances in social studies in their final year in primary education (group 8 -sixth grade), which will be conducted from 2020 to 2022.

Topics covered are:

(1) Objectives for history education in the Netherlands
(2) Teaching of history and social studies in primary schools in the Netherlands
(3) Effective teaching approaches: what are essentials and what is known from empirical studies about the effects of these approaches in history education.