American history shall be viewed as factual, not as constructed, shall be viewed as
knowable, teachable, and testable, and shall be defined as the creation of a new nation …

Social studies is a very broad field. To many, it means the study of virtually all the academic
disciplines one might name for the purpose of preparing active, thoughtful citizens (National …

Now in its sixth edition, Doing History offers a unique perspective on teaching and learning
history in the elementary and middle grades. Through case studies of teachers and students …

Descripción Este capítulo explora las ideas preconcebidas de los estudiantes sobre la
historia, señalando algunos conceptos clave involucrados en dar sentido a la disciplina …

Over the past three decades, expanding scholarship on history teaching, learning, and
cognition has promoted the development of historical thinking in response to the broader …

How can teachers incorporate the richness of historical resources into classrooms in ways
that are true to the discipline of history and are pedagogically sound? Now in its second …

The need to understand ways of defining progression in history becomes ever more
pressing in the face of a target-setting, assessment-driven regime which requires us to …

Research on students' ideas about history has been an active field of investigation in recent
decades. Over 200 empirical studies have been published since the late 1970s by scholars …

This Handbook outlines the current state of research in social studies education–a complex,
dynamic, challenging field with competing perspectives about appropriate goals, and on …

This research examines adolescents' learning about a historical issue from multiple
information sources. Adolescents read 2 contradictory texts explaining the Fall of Rome and …