Pupils' Conceptions of History and History Teaching

Fink, Nadine

doi:10.18546/herj.04.2.03

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“…In other words, almost half the number of students at each grade level made sense of history as those in the past. Previously conducted similar studies (Alabaş & Dilek, 2009;Fink, 2004;Goalen, 1999) supported this finding. In addition, Yilmaz and Kaya's (2011) research revealed that a majority of social studies teachers perceived history as those happenings in the past.…”

Section: History As the Pastsupporting

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The Trajectory of Elementary and Middle School Students’ Perceptions of the Concept of History

Altun¹

2014

EDUC SCI-THEOR PRACT

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The current study aims to reveal the trajectory (change) of the perception of the concept of history during elementary and middle school years through students' responses to the question, "What is history in your opinion?" The cross-sectional research design was the preferred method to provide stronger opportunity for the current study to reach its broad target by allowing the simultaneous study of various age groups. The study group consisted of 712 students of various socioeconomic statuses from six schools. The data collection tool used for the elementary level first-and second-grade students was an interview, whereas for all higher grades, it was an interview form. Data obtained were analysed through content analysis, resulting in the conclusion that students had three different perceptions of history. Perceptions of history as time exhibited a decline from the beginning of elementary school to the end of middle school, whereas the perception of history as a current activity showed an increasing ascent. Perceptions of history as past remained important all along the trajectory and also showed gradual increases. One of the important results obtained from the current study was that students, from the third grade and above, gradually began to own the history. Their characterization of the past activities transformed to our past activities over time. In conclusion, we contend that the centre of gravity for elementary and middle school students' perceptions of history reside in the past rather than the present.

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Section: History As the Pastsupporting

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The Trajectory of Elementary and Middle School Students’ Perceptions of the Concept of History

Altun¹

2014

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“…One of the activities that enable students to develop the Historical Thinking Skills is questioning. Felder and Brent (2003) and Fink (2004) suggest History teachers should ask higher level questions to their students. Such questions lead students to think inside and outside of the box.…”

Section: The Applications Of Historical Thinking Skills In the Teachimentioning

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The Applications of Historical Thinking Skills in Teaching and History Learning: Between Rhetoric and Reality

Maria

Ahmad

Awang

2019

Proceedings of the THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT &Amp; MULTI-ETHNIC SOCIETY - ICOSH2 2019

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The applications of Historical Thinking Skills in teaching and History learning have become more attention among researchers in Malaysia after the Standard Curriculum of Secondary Schools for History education was launched by the Ministry of Education in 2016. Historical Thinking Skills are consisting five skills such as understanding the chronology, discovering historical evidence, making interpretation, imagination, and rationalization that can help the students cognitively to understand the process of using the historical information, it's including deciphering context, perspective, point of view, and the perceived facts to understand the past or thinking like as historian. Furthermore, Historical Thinking Skills have been more important as the appropriate skills in history learning, especially for students on how to learn the history subject authentically and dynamically than only memorizing historical facts and events. On top of that, Historical Thinking Skills were compulsory skills which are used in teaching and history learning who must be mastered by students and also teachers in Malaysia with desired the students' aspirations in which embodied in the Malaysian Education Development Plan (2013-2025) can be achieved which is to develop thinking skills among them. As a history teacher, the applications of Historical Thinking Skills must be fostered to their students in which also was emphasized in Standard Document for Curriculum and Assessment of History subject. However, the applications of Historical Thinking Skills in teaching and History learning having many issues, problems, and challenges that acquired by researchers whether it becomes more rhetoric or reality which be the points in our discussion.

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“…De esta manera, se busca aprehender la historia como materia escolar desde una perspectiva analítica, para romper con la idea ampliamente difundida que sostiene que la historia escolar enfatiza la sucesión cronológica de hechos (Fink, 2005;Fuentes Moreno, 2004).…”

Section: Libros De Texto Y Enseñanza De La Historiaunclassified

La ense�anza de la historia en los libros de texto de Educaci�n B�sica en Chile

Rosenkranz¹

2017

ECCSS

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Resumen. El presente artículo tiene por objetivo identificar y analizar los aprendizajes presentes en las actividades de los libros de texto de Educación Básica en Chile bajo el currículum vigente publicado en 2013. Para el análisis se emplea la metodología cuantitativa, descriptiva e inferencial, a partir de una matriz de vaciado de datos con categorías provenientes del pensamiento histórico. Entre los principales hallazgos destacan que los textos analizados, si bien mantienen algunos aspectos de las perspectivas tradicionales de enseñanza de la Historia, a la vez promueven rasgos del pensamiento histórico gracias a la incipiente inclusión de conceptos propios de la Historia y una frecuente incorporación de actividades que trabajan fuentes primarias y secundarias de distinto tipo.

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Pupils' Conceptions of History and History Teaching

Cited by 6 publications

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The Trajectory of Elementary and Middle School Students’ Perceptions of the Concept of History

The Trajectory of Elementary and Middle School Students’ Perceptions of the Concept of History

The Applications of Historical Thinking Skills in Teaching and History Learning: Between Rhetoric and Reality

La ense�anza de la historia en los libros de texto de Educaci�n B�sica en Chile

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