Title: How do Future Teachers Analyse and Interpret a historical Cartoon? Empirical Research using the eye-tracking Method
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Abstract: The author of the article deals with the topic of analysis and interpretation of a historical cartoon as a specific iconographic source. The aim of the empirical research was to determine the qualitative level of analysis and interpretation of a historical cartoon among students of social humanities teacher training programmes depending on the presented interpretation model (structured set of questions) and to evaluate its applicability in school practice from the perspective of future teachers. From the methodological point of view, a qualitative research approach with elements of quantification was chosen, including audio recordings, structured reflective interviews and the eye-tracking method aimed at exploring the participants’ perceptual strategies. According to the results of the research, the students show a higher quality of interpretation in structured analysis than in unstructured analysis, because if the proposed interpretation model was used, the participants were able to better capture and clarify the historical context and connections, to understand the analogies and symbols depicted, and to reveal the possible views and attitudes of the cartoonist. The research shows the need to equip future teachers with adequate interpretive competences in order to develop them in their pedagogical practice in primary and secondary schools and to be able to create interpretation models for structured analysis and interpretation of iconographic sources in the teaching of social humanities.
Author: LABISCHOVÁ, Denisa
DOI: 10.17846/SHN.2024.28.1.259-281
Publication order reference: University of Ostrava, Fráni Šrámka 3, 709 00 Ostrava – Mariánské Hory, Czech Republic, mail: denisa.labischova@osu.cz
Source: Studia Historica Nitriensia, year: 2024, vol.: 28, number: 1, pages: 259-281
Key words: Historical Cartoon; Iconographic Sources; Analysis and Interpretation; Eye-Tracking; Historical Thinking Competences; Undergraduate Teacher Training;
Language: ENGLISH