Fifth Graders' Ideas about History Expressed before and after Their Introduction to the Subject

• Autores: Jere Brophy, Bruce A. VanSledright, Nancy Bredin
• Localización: Theory and research in social education, ISSN 0093-3104, Vol. 20, Vol. 4, 1992, págs. 440-489
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Prior to their first curriculum unit (on history and the work of historians) in a U.S. history course, three classes of fifth graders stated what they knew (or thought was true) about history and what they wanted to learn about it. After the unit, they reported what they had learned. In addition, a stratified sample of ten students was interviewed concerning the details of their thinking about several key subtopics. Following the unit, the students' knowledge and thinking about history had become notably more sophisticated. Even so, certain misconceptions still persisted in some of the students and all of them still had difficulty undertanding how they might use historical knowledge in their lives outside of school.