Mark Sheehan

Dr Mark Sheehan

Senior Lecturer
School of Education Policy and Implementation
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Qualifications

PhD, MA, BA, Dip Tchg

Profile

Mark teaches courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level on secondary school history, the senior social sciences and curriculum theory. He has been involved in history education matters in New Zealand for over 25 years as a teacher, researcher, museum educator, advisor and textbook writer. He has also acted as an independent consultant to the Ministry of Education (and other organisations) on teaching and learning history and was a visiting academic at the Institute of Education (University of London) during the latter part of 2010.

Current Research

Mark’s primary research interests focus on critical thinking, teaching and learning history and the place of knowledge in the New Zealand curriculum. As well as researching and publishing on these areas, Mark is currently the director of a Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TRLI) study that is examining how secondary school history students learn how to think critically/historically and is also involved in studies of the role of history in citizenship education.

Mark Sheehan is interested in supervising research on critical thinking, internal assessment, teaching and learning history, curriculum design, history and memory  and the place of knowledge in the NZ curriculum.

Publications