Publisher's Synopsis
This volule focuses on the challenges of language and linguistic heterogeneity for historical learning in schools. In view of the increasing cultural and social diversity in classrooms, the topic seems more current than ever. The contributions in the volume deal with the linguistic prerequisites that pupils need for subject-related reading and writing, for historical thinking and argumentation, and how such activities can be encouraged in history lessons. It has become clear that history as a language subject is very demanding and requires the students to think and express themselves in an elaborate way due to its high degree of abstraction.
