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Students As Historians: The Historical Narrative Inquiry Model's Impact on Historical Thinking and Historical Empathy
… middle-school students' abilities to engage in historical thinking. I dispute the Hallam-Piaget model, which discourages analytical thinking through the assumption that children lack skills to think critically about history. My historical narrative inquiry model (1) teaches procedural knowledge …
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The Use of Primary Source Historical Documents, Historical Reasoning Heuristics, and the Subsequent Development of Historical Empathy
… was to determine if the use of primary source historical documents used in conjunction with the heuristics associated with historical reasoning (sourcing, corroboration, and contextualization) would lead to a subsequent development of historical empathy. Three intact groups (already formed …
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Tennyson's Historical Dramas
… He enjoyed searching into causes and effects of historical and social movements, His own words may be quoted very aptly as expressing his purpose in writing historical drama. "This triology(sic) of plays portrays the making of England."
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Statistics in Historical Musicology
… techniques are well established in many historical disciplines and are used extensively in music analysis, music perception, and performance studies. However, statisticians have largely ignored the many music catalogues, databases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, lists and other datasets …
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Hervey Allen, Historical Novelist
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6000164.pdf: 11294477 bytes, checksum: 5b5775f6ff4b25d6ac75b5a2051cd7b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1959
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"We Were Queens": Historical Loss Among Native Hawaiians: Exploring Historical Trauma-Informed Suicide Prevention
… need to understand the social, structural, and historical determinants of these health disparities in order to implement effective suicide prevention and intervention programs. In a review of the empirical evidence related to suicide risk and protections among Native Hawaiians, some unique …
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An Enumeration of Historical Accounts Selected to Facilitate the Teaching of Key Historical Concepts
<p>The purpose of this study is to (1) ascertain from the literature a number of key core values basic to an understanding of American democracy and (2) to enumerate various counts from United States History, which could be used with elementary school pupils to develop an understanding of these …
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Modern Dance: A Historical Consideration
… modern dance between 1900 and 1945 and how its historical study illuminates this significant period. All these writings made contributions to dance history that were original in their time. My first publication helped to define the field of dance history. My most recent one has taken an …
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Electroanalgesia: Historical and Contemporary Developments
… This thesis makes an in-depth examination of the historical, including the eighteenth-century pioneering electrical treatments of the Rev John Wesley, together with contemporary developments in electroanalgesia from the late twentieth-century, including the author's own pilot study, in order to …
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Historical Memory of Mount Rushmore
… of Mount Rushmore. This work analyzes the historical significance of the United States' illegal taking of the Black Hills and how it has impacted notions of Mount Rushmore. The different religious interpretations and beliefs of the Black Hills also factor into the historical memory of Mount …
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Historical Overview of Children's Magazines
In an effort to illuminate a neglected field of study, this thesis will examine children's magazines in the United States and the forces shaping them. Children's magazines reflect the country's history and attitudes about youth and yet limited research about these important periodicals exists. This …
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Reconceiving curriculum: an historical approach
… dissertation reconceives curriculum through an historical approach that employs Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. Curriculum is more than the knowledge taught in school. Curriculum, as I a theorist conceives it, is concerned with the broader intellectual and ideological ways a society …
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Laurel, Mississippi: A Historical Perspective.
<p>Laurel, Mississippi, exemplifies the new southern development that occurred in the years following Reconstruction. Coinciding with continental rail building and the depletion of northern timber resources, Laurel emerged as one of Mississippi's great industrial centers. Laurel's survival after …
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HISTORICAL THINKING AND THE HISTORY TEXTBOOK
… and senior history classes exemplify and invite historical thinking and in what ways do they not? To answer this, four textbooks were analyzed using the methodology of content analysis. The academic literature on historical thinking provided the theoretical framework for this study. The textbooks …
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