Empathy tasks, which invite students to identify with historical actors or describe their perspectives, are a common phenomenon in history education. The aim of this study is to explore the differences in students’ answers when completing an empathy task asking for an account written in first person …

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Historical empathy can be helpful when learning history. However, we do not know what students do when completing an empathy-task or how they perceive this type of task. In the explorative study presented in this article, we recognized different types of empathy-tasks, we saw students showing cognitive …