Recommended Readings
Monday June 30th 2008, 2:06 pm
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Posted by: Ken Tothero

Ashby, R. & Lee, P. (1987).  Children’s concepts of empathy and understanding in history.  In C. Portal (Ed.), The History Curriculum for Teachers (pp. 62-88).  London: Falmer.

Ashby, R. & Lee, P. (2000). Progression in historical understanding among students ages 7–14. In P. Stearns, P. Seixas, and S. Wineburg (Eds.), Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives. New York: New York University Press.

Barton, K. (1996).  Narrative simplifications in elementary students’ historical thinking.  In J. Brophy (Ed.), Advances in Research on Teaching, (Vol. 6) (pp. 51-84).  Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Barton, K. (1997). “I just kinda know”: Elementary students’ ideas about historical evidence.  Theory and Research in Social Education, 24, 407-430.

Boix-Mansilla, V. (2000). Historical understanding: Beyond the past and into the present. In P. Stearns, P. Seixas, & S. Wineburg (Eds.), Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives (pp. 390-418). New York: New York University Press.

Davidson, J.W. & Lytle, M.H. (1992). After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection.  New York: McGraw Hill.

Davis, O.L., Yeager, E. & Foster, S. (Eds.). (2001). Historical Empathy and Perspective Taking in the Social Studies. Lanham, MD: Rowman Littlefield.

Holt, T. (1990). Thinking Historically: Narrative, Imagination, and Understanding.  New York: College Entrance Examination Board

Loewen, J. (1995). Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster

Seixas, P. (1993).  Historical understanding among adolescents in a multicultural setting.  Curriculum Inquiry, 23, 301-327.

Seixas, P. (1994).  Students’ understanding of historical significance. Theory and Research in Social Education, 22, 281-304.

Seixas, P. (1998). Student Teachers Thinking Historically. Theory and Research in Social Education, 26, 310–341.

Tally, B., & Goldenberg, L. (2005). Fostering Historical Thinking With Digitized Primary Sources. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 38(1), 1-21.

VanSledright, B. (1998). On the importance of historical positionality to thinking about and teaching history. International Journal of Social Education, 12, 1-18.

VanSledright, B. (2000). Reconstructing Andrew Jackson: Prospective elementary teachers’ readings of revisionist history texts. Theory and Research in Social Education, 28, 411-444.

VanSledright, B. (2002). In Search of America’s Past: Learning to Read History in Elementary School. New York: Teachers College Press.

Wineburg, S. (1991). On the reading of historical texts; Notes on the breach between school and the academy. American Education Research Journal, 28, 495-519.

Wineburg, S. (2001). Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past. Philaelphia: Temple University Press.

Yeager, E. (1996).  Classroom teachers’ thinking about historical texts: An exploratory study. Theory and Research in Social Education, 24, 146-166.

Zinn, H. (1980). A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. New York, NY:  Harper Collins.


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