Nimrod Tal- Phd
- Senior Lecturer at Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts
Nimrod Tal
- Phd
- Senior Lecturer at Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts
Historian & teacher trainer rethinking Israeli and global history education; writing a book on history’s role in Israel.
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Introduction
I'm a historian and teacher trainer, head of my college’s excellence program, and co-founder of the Israeli Institute of History Education. My research explores history education in Israel and worldwide, with a focus on memory, identity, historical consciousness, and critical narrative inquiry. I'm currently writing a book on the role of history in Israel. I've published on these topics and am always happy to connect and collaborate with scholars around the world.
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In recent decades, the Israeli education system has grappled with aligning with the 21st century’s changing landscape. Even more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic and Hamas’s 10\7 massacres and the attendant 2023–24 Gaza War intensified this urgency. This article examines the Shapira Neighbourhood School in southern Tel Aviv as a case study of the po...
The article examines how Israeli state-secular education integrates the principle of continuity and change through human agency into its history curriculum, in order to cultivate democratic consciousness. Drawing on theorists such as John Dewey, Marc Bloch, and Peter Seixas, it evaluates the curriculum's potential, or its lack thereof, to promote t...
This article explores the intersection of history education and traumatic narratives, focusing on the impact of out-of-the-classroom learning experiences on the teaching of history during turbulent periods. Through a case study of history teacher training in contemporary Israel, it investigates how exposure to others’ troubled histories and past tr...
This article explores the significance of Jewish‐Ethiopian historical narratives for the understanding of Ethiopian Jews' social reality in Israel. It emphasizes how these narratives have been crucial for the ongoing integration efforts of the Jewish Ethiopian community, especially during a period of significant challenges to the established Zionis...
Unearthing a key chapter in the development of Israeli history education, this article explores history-teaching at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, one of Israel’s foremost schools, in the wake of the 1973 Yom Kippur War and against the backdrop of attempts made by the Ministry of Education to reform history education in Israel. It shows that in...
This article uses the dramatic education reforms that taking place in the Israel to explore the question of 'Why History Education?' in the Israeli context. Using a wide variety of sources-from official curricula through matriculation tests to lesson plans-the article conducts a diachronic analysis spanning eight decades, from the establishment of...
While the literature on the history of history education in Israel is vast, little has been written about it from teachers’ perspectives. This article focuses on teachers’ motivation for teaching history and explores what formed the ways in which they understood their profession in the 1970s and 1980s, a period of great social and political change...
This article examines the key category defining multiculturalism in Israeli history education: the representation of North African and Middle Eastern Jewry, aka Mizrahim. Applying Nordgren’s and Johansson’s conceptualisation, the article explores the changes in this subject from the establishment of Israel to the present day. The diachronic textual...
Mimi Haskin & Nissim Avissar (eds.)
This paper explores the role of Civil War heritage in U.S. public diplomacy during the Cold War era. Especially during the celebration of the Civil War’s centennial, between 1961 and 1965, the Americans endeavoured to harness the conflict’s heritage to promote U.S. interests in Europe. How they intended to do this is demonstrated primarily through...
This book explores the continuous British fascination with the American Civil War from the 1870s to the present. Analysing the War's place in British political discourse, military writing, intellectual life and popular culture, it traces the sources of Britons' appeal to the American conflict and their use of its representations at home and abroad.
From the very outbreak of hostilities Britons were exposed to the contesting notions of political unity and political autonomy that were embedded in the rhetoric explaining the Civil War. British correspondents and envoys reported from America and, throughout the war, Northern and Southern agitators worked indefatigably in Britain to convey their r...
Dawn. First light gently falls on the humid canvas tents. An expectant sense of things to come practically hums in the air; the Union and Confederate soldiers nonetheless prepare quietly and with ease. Weapons are cleaned and gear checked, canteens are filled afresh and shoes are brushed. The sound of a bugle and a roll call. Drills. More drills. A...
From the outset the Civil War caught the British military’s attention. For its scale and scope, because of politicians’ involvement in military affairs and generals’ intervention in politics, for the introduction of new technologies, and for its actual and potential impact on their country, British officers observed closely the American conflict. A...
The British public had little contact with the legacy of the Civil War between the war’s end and the first decades of the twentieth century. After the guns fell silent in America, Britain ceased to serve as a battleground for American propaganda, and the plethora of information that had flooded the British public sphere during the war turned into a...
The American Civil War achieved unique prominence in twentieth-century British culture. No other foreign conflict was etched onto British historical consciousness for so long and in such diverse ways as was the American conflict. Britons’ interest in the Civil War — evident in British political discourse, in British military thought, among British...
In 1974, scholar Hugh Brogan, son of the eminent British historian Denis Brogan, presented his views on Lincoln in a preface to a new edition of his father’s 1935 biography of the president. Lincoln, the younger Brogan explained, had been a strong, nationalistic war president who had taken up arms against the secessionist and pro-slavery Confederac...
