How to develop historical consciousness through uses of history – A Swedish perspective

Historical consciousness is a popular concept in history education that has often been considered as difficult to apply in educational practice. Taking its departure in the Swedish Schools’ Inspectorate’s recent critique of how Swedish history teaching cannot contribute to a development of students’ historical consciousnesses, this article discusses how we can theoretically understand how a development historical consciousness may happen. Using the results of this discussion, it is then suggested how historical consciousness could be developed in history education