...-informed approaches acknowledging proximity effects in communities directly affected by conflict. Social implications Simulation-based pedagogy offers structured approaches for addressing contested histories systematically excluded from formal education despite significance in national narratives...

... as dialogically mediated by sociocultural and narrative perceptions. Design/methodology/approach This hermeneutic phenomenology explores eight adolescents' engagements with primary sources from the Second World War. Findings This study reveals the power of empathy to draw the students into the past...

... skills. The study concludes that while undergraduate exposure to historiography is potentially useful and can help history teachers manage the complexity of the profession, drawing upon historiographical understandings in order to recognize the construction of historical narratives in the classroom...