Research in history education suggests disciplinary approaches to teaching and learning about the past lead to considerable growth in students' historical thinking capabilities. This study investigated how an historical inquiry approach to instruction influences the ways adolescents read, think and write about American history. The researcher created and taught a series of lessons centered on the sourcing heuristic and other aspects of the discipline of history to students in two sections of an 8th grade American history course in a major school district in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The lessons, exercises and pedagogical moves were based on a literature-based, theoretically-grounded framework for learning to think in histor...
Building on the literature on epistemic cognition, epistemic beliefs, and historical thinking, three...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-169).The purpose of this study, which is presented ...
Building on the literature on epistemic cognition, epistemic beliefs, and historical thinking, three...
History education provides a valuable asset in the education of youth from the integration of discip...
This lesson plan, crafted during the Bard Early College Fellowship, details a six-lesson series to h...
This study documents a teacher's efforts to scaffold and support his students' investigations of mod...
"School history" has long since been characterized by teacher-centered lectures and student passivit...
History education researchers in the U.S. have largely focused on students’ capacities to improve th...
National tests of student achievement in history have been poor for nearly 100 years, yet instructio...
The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of a theory based U.S. History curriculum on mi...
History education researchers encourage teachers to intentionally integrate content, methods, and as...
The dissertation explores middle-school students' abilities to engage in historical thinking. I disp...
As a discipline, history sometimes gets a bad reputation because many students believe that it is al...
Teacher education researchers have argued that teacher candidates must learn to attend to students’ ...
The history education literature is replete with a call to help teachers understand that history sho...
Building on the literature on epistemic cognition, epistemic beliefs, and historical thinking, three...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-169).The purpose of this study, which is presented ...
Building on the literature on epistemic cognition, epistemic beliefs, and historical thinking, three...
History education provides a valuable asset in the education of youth from the integration of discip...
This lesson plan, crafted during the Bard Early College Fellowship, details a six-lesson series to h...
This study documents a teacher's efforts to scaffold and support his students' investigations of mod...
"School history" has long since been characterized by teacher-centered lectures and student passivit...
History education researchers in the U.S. have largely focused on students’ capacities to improve th...
National tests of student achievement in history have been poor for nearly 100 years, yet instructio...
The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of a theory based U.S. History curriculum on mi...
History education researchers encourage teachers to intentionally integrate content, methods, and as...
The dissertation explores middle-school students' abilities to engage in historical thinking. I disp...
As a discipline, history sometimes gets a bad reputation because many students believe that it is al...
Teacher education researchers have argued that teacher candidates must learn to attend to students’ ...
The history education literature is replete with a call to help teachers understand that history sho...
Building on the literature on epistemic cognition, epistemic beliefs, and historical thinking, three...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-169).The purpose of this study, which is presented ...
Building on the literature on epistemic cognition, epistemic beliefs, and historical thinking, three...