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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"historical thinking"”.
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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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Third-grade students' historical thinking and The BIG History Lesson
… history learning and skill development (i.e. historical thinking skills). What is the potential for elementary students in using historical thinking skills to "do history" in the ways that historians might? And how might these students engage in a history museum setting that lasts longer than …
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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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Dialogic education, historical thinking and epistemic beliefs: a design-based research study of teaching in Taiwanese classrooms
… use of dialogue to facilitate students’ historical thinking and (2) the trajectory of historical personal epistemology through a design-based approach. Empirical evidence emerging in previous decades has acknowledged that good quality classroom dialogue could have a positive impact on …
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STUDYING EPISTEMIC COGNITION IN THE HISTORY CLASSROOM: CASES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING TO THINK HISTORICALLY
… on epistemic cognition, epistemic beliefs, and historical thinking, three class-level case studies were conducted to investigate features of historical thinking and history-specific epistemic beliefs of high-school students and their teachers. These cases also considered teachers' pedagogical …
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Supporting Historical Research and Education with Crowdsourced Analysis of Primary Sources
… Primary sources are not only direct evidence for historical arguments but also important materials for teaching historical thinking skills to students in classrooms, and engaging the broader public. However, finding high quality primary sources that are relevant to a historian's specialized topics …
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Using Discourse to Improve the Quality of Student Talk and Historical Argumentative Writing
… requires students to engage in disciplinary thinking and to articulate that thinking to others, both verbally and in writing. However, such disciplinary thinking does not come natural to students (Wineburg, 1991). Thus, students require instruction in disciplinary thinking to learn its …
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Nature of talk and interaction in the Singapore history classroom
… in nature (Nichol, 1984), and involves adductive thinking (Booth, 1983), where historical evidence and facts are 'teased out' and a convincing account of the past is then reconstructed through speculation, imagination and empathy (Nichol, 1984; Booth, 1983). The teaching and learning of history …
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Cyber-História: estratégias e possibilidades do ensino de História aliadas ao desenvolvimento de jogos digitais com o uso do Rpg Maker
… potential as cultural artefacts, and use as historical sources, providing support for teachers who wish to apply the strategy in the classroom. The second chapter analyses research in the field of History that has explored the use of digital games, organizes teaching experiences, and proposes …
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Hope, fear, shame, frustration : continuity and change in the expression of coloured identity in white supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994
… during this period, as conventional historical thinking would have it, but to have remained remarkably stable throughout the era of white rule. This is not to contend that Coloured identity was static or that it lacked fluidity but that the continuities during this period were more …
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Students’ Judgments of Historical Significance in Singapore Schools: Positionalities and Narratives
… identities can influence their judgments on historical significance. Furthermore, it has demonstrated that students’ identities may incline them towards appropriating or resisting particular historical narratives when considering historical significance. In Singapore, little is known about …
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Informing a transformative multicultural approach: Seeking a content form and a medium for Illinois Indian resources for preservice social studies teachers
… examining multicultural education approach vs. historical thinking approach; (4) informing the rift between academic historians and social studies adherents. (5) Findings also led to development of the Tree of Growth Model reflecting educator dispositions.
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The specialisation of historical knowledge in one content area in four Grade 7 Social Sciences textbooks under CAPS
This dissertation considers how historical knowledge is specialised in one chapter in four Grade 7 Social Science textbooks produced under the CAPS curriculum. The four textbooks selected are from two publishers, and the interest was in similarities and differences within and between publishers. …
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The trajectory of the shifts in academic and civic identity in South African and English secondary school History National Curriculums across two key reform moments
… have been chosen in part because of the historical connections the two countries share, as well as the relationships that exist between the history educationalists in the two contexts. The theoretical underpinning for the discussion of identity are Bernstein's concepts of instructional …
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Post- Print: a moment of compression
… Event. Rather than mere diversions, I consider historical thinking and anachronism to be practical methodologies in my work. These retroactive interventions are themselves closely informed for me by the philosophical strategies of fragmentation, reframing and détournement variously proposed by …
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Wounds of the past: Trauma and German historical thought after 1945
… is an intellectual history of trauma and historical thinking in postwar Germany. I argue that the traumas of the Second World War generated a paradigm shift in German historical thought, as experiences of dehumanization, exile, imprisonment, destruction, and genocide destabilized …
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The Collective Moment: Reading Time in the Greek Anthology
… epigrams offers a complex source for literary-historical thinking in antiquity. This project examines the temporality of Greek epigram and the experience of reading diachronic difference in the Greek anthological tradition to argue for the importance of transhistorical, non-linear reading to …
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Problematised History Pedagogy as Narrative Research: Self-Fashioning, Dismantled Voices and Reimaginings in History Education
… to deconstruct the participants’ history thinking and their experiences of the cultural politics of the history curriculum. This was conceptualised as a dismantling analysis [DA]. The third part of the narrative recounts the history class’s year of reflexive engagement with PHP. …
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Perspektivenübernahme als eine Kompetenz historischen Verstehens
Eine Kompetenz, die Schüler im Geschichtsunterricht erwerben sollen, ist das Hinein-versetzen in die Gedanken- und Gefühlswelt von Menschen, die zu früheren Zeiten gelebt haben. Diese Kompetenz zur historischen Perspektivenübernahme wird in der vor-liegenden Arbeit aus zwei Blickwinkeln beleuchtet: …