Cognitive and Instructional Processes in History and the Social Sciences

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
• 1 - Introduction 1
• REFERENCES 14
• I - COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES 15
• 2 - Young People's Understandi of Politics and Economics 17
• REFERENCES 44
• 3 - Children's Understanding of the Concept of the State 49
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 74
• REFERENCES 74
• 4 - Stages in the Child's Construction of Social Knowledge 77
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 100
• REFERENCES 100
• 5 - Dimensions of Adolescents' Reasoning about Political and Historical Issues: Ontological Switches, Developmental Processes, and Situated Learning 103
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 121
• REFERENCES 121
• Discussion of Chapte 2-5: Cognitive Development and Representation Processes in the Understanding of Social and Historical Concepts 123
• II - TEACHING AND INSTRUCTIONAL PROCESSES IN HISTORY 129
• 6 - Learning to Reason in History: Mindlessness to Mindfulness 131
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 157
• REFERENCES 157
• 7 - Understanding History for Teaching: A Study of the Historical Understanding of Prospective Teachers 159
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 181
• REFERENCES 181
• APPENDIX: FOUR VIEWS OF RECONSTRUCTION 183
• 8 - Constructing the Learning Task in History Instruction 187
• REFERENCES 199
• 9 - Controversial Issues in History Instruction 201
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 217
• REFERENCES 217
• Discussion of Chapters 6-9: What Do People Consume History For? (If Thefy Do) 221
• REFERENCES 232
• III - LEARNING FROM HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES TEXTS 235
• 10 - Outcomes of History Instruction: Paste-up Accounts 237
• ACKNOWLEDGMENT 255
• REFERENCES 255
• 11 - How Students Use Texts to Learn and Reason About Historical Uncertainty 257
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 282
• REFERENCES 282
• 12 - Contextualized Thinking in History 285
• REFERENCES 306
• Discussion of Chapters 10-12: Promoting Narrative Literacy and Historical Literacy 309
• REFERENCES 319
• IV - COMPLEX PROCESSES IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 321
• 13 - Strugglwing with the Past: Some Dynamics of Historical Representation 323
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 336
• REFERENCES 337
• 14 - (Re-)Constructing History and Moral judgment: On Relationships Between Interpretations of the Past and Perceptions of the Present 339
• 14 - (Re-)Constructing History and Moral judgment: On Relationships Between Interpretations of the Past and Perceptions of the Present 355
• 15 - Historical Knowledge: Cognitive and Instructional Implications 357
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 374
• REFERENCES 375
• 16 - Historical Reasoning as Theory-Evidence Coordination 377
• 16 - Historical Reasoning as Theory-Evidence Coordination 400
• 17 - The Collapse of the Soviet Union: A Case Study in Causal Reasoning 403
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 427
• REFERENCES 428
• Discussion of Chapters 13-17 The Cognitive Construction of History 431
• REFERENCES 442
• Author Index 445
• Subject Index 453

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