This volume consists of the proceedings of an international conference on cognition and instruction in history. The papers cover several broad areas: historical narratives and history teaching; the use of texts, documents and images in learning history; and historical explanation and understanding. The contributions aim to improve ideas of how history is understood by those who attempt (in schools or elsewhere) to master its complexities. It considers the tacit ideas about history or the past which children bring to history education, the reasoning that students of history employ, and the...

Emerging as the result of an international conference, this text aims to fill a gap in the study of how people learn and reason in the context of particular subject matter domains, and how instruction can be improved. The text focuses on history and the social sciences from a cognitive perspective.

Emerging as the result of an international conference, this text aims to fill a gap in the study of how people learn and reason in the context of particular subject matter domains, and how instruction can be improved. The text focuses on history and the social sciences from a cognitive perspective.

In the series: Advances in Cultural Psychology, Jaan Valsiner Memory construction and national identity are key issues in our societies, as well as it is patriotism. How can we nowadays believe and give sense to traditional narrations that explain the origins of nations and communities? How do these narrations function in a process of globalization? How should we remember the recent past? In the construction of collective memory, no doubt history taught at school plays a fundamental role, as childhood and adolescence are periods in which the identity seeds flourish vigorously. This book...

In the Series: Advances in Cultural Psychology Memory construction and national identity are key issues in our societies, as well as it is patriotism. How can we nowadays believe and give sense to traditional narrations that explain the origins of nations and communities? How do these narrations function in a process of globalization? How should we remember the recent past? In the construction of collective memory, no doubt history taught at school plays a fundamental role, as childhood and adolescence are periods in which the identity seeds flourish vigorously. This book analyses how history...

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This volume discusses the effects, models and implications of history teaching in relation to conflict transformation and reconciliation from a social-psychological perspective. Bringing together a mix of established and young researchers and academics, from the fields of psychology, education, and history, the book provides an in-depth exploration of the role of historical narratives, history teaching, history textbooks and the work of civil society organizations in post-conflict societies undergoing reconciliation processes, and...