CFP: Journal of Digital History

Teaching Digital History: a CfP
(see full call)

For its first Open Ended Issue, the Journal of Digital History will explore how we teach digital history and how we think about the pedagogy of digital history. We are particularly interested in questions of how we can integrate digital history into the traditional curriculum, the best practices for teaching it, how we would like to teach it in regions of the world where such a practice is nascent, and how to further solidify the scholarship of teaching and learning as a sub-discipline. Teaching Digital History is a practice in constant motion, based on an unstable set of pedagogical toolkits, that is multifaceted as digital history itself is multifaceted.

Following the innovative practices of the Journal of Digital History, submitted articles will be multilayered. Though articles can start from different points of view – teaching practices, pedagogical theory – contributions will develop three layers:

• the narrative layer – that will expose your main arguments;
• the hermeneutics layer – that will explain the (computing or pedagogical) tools that allow to put your arguments into practice, and their critical reviews;
• the data layer – that can be, for this open issue, made of different things: surveys, interviews, curriculum(s), teaching modules.

The Open Ended Issue’s editorial team will welcome articles on many subjects, that include but are not limited to:

• teaching Digital History as a topic;
• teaching DH-related tools (GIS, development languages, text processing, topic modeling tools) as methods to study history;
• pedagogical tools/theories/practices: confrontation with new tools and paradigms, peer group projects, hand’s on courses, (interdisciplinary) team teaching scenarios, development of digital self learning tools, engagement, digital storytelling, etc;
• how does the implementation of digital tools and digitization change the way we teach history?
• failures and hindrances in the teaching of Digital history;
• digital history text-book related articles (not the text-book itself, but a discussion on its scope, on how it should be written, on which skills should be taught, etc);
• History of teaching Digital History.

If you have any questions or want to discuss a proposal, please contact the special issue editors at jdh.admin@uni.lu.

How to submit

As this is an open-ended issue, submitting an article can be done any time. To submit an abstract please go to the dedicated page.