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Researching history education : theory, method, and context

Levstik and Barton focus primarily on how children and teachers think, and the implications for methodology. Coverage includes such topics as narrative as a primary act of mind, the relationship between historical response and narrative, the sense of history, visualization of time, children's understanding of historical time, historical salience in children's chronological thinking, students' understanding of individuals and institutions, narrative amplification, children's ideas about historical evidence, the value of knowing the past, challenging the familiar, and archeological exploration

eBook, English, 2008
Routledge, New York, 2008