International Review of History Education : International Review of History Education, Volume 2

This volume consists of the proceedings of an international conference on cognition and instruction in history. The papers cover several areas: historical narratives and history teaching; the use of texts, documents and images in learning history; and historical explanation and understanding. Front Cover International Review of History Education Copyright Page Contents Preface Series Editors' Introduction 1. Introduction Section I Narrative and Sociocultural Approach to History Teaching and Learning 2. The Structure of Historical Narratives and the Teaching of History 3. Historical Representation as Mediated Action: Official History as a Tool 4. The Russian Revolution: Official and Unofficial Accounts 5. Uses of Historical Knowledge: An Exploration of the Construction of Professional Identity in Students of Psychology 6. Total History and its Enemies in Present-Day Teaching Section II Uses of Texts, Documents and Images in History Learning 7. Understanding Historical Controversies: Students' Evaluation and Use of Documentary Evidence 8. What Do Students Know and How Do They Seek to Know More? Knowledge Base and the Search for Strategies in the Study of Art History 9. Seeing the Past: Learning History through Group Discussion of Iconographic Sources 10. Wildflowers, Sheep, and Democracy: The Role of Analogy in the Teaching and Learning of History Section III Historical Explanations 11. Causality in History: On the 'Intuitive' Understanding of the Concepts of Sufficiency and Necessity 12. Influence of Intentional and Personal Factors in Recalling Historical Texts: A Developmental Perspective 13. Researching Children's Ideas about History 14. Evidence Evaluation and Reasoning Abilities in the Domain of History: An Empirical Study 15. On Reasoning in History Section IV History Teaching and Understanding 16. Goals in History Teaching 17. Generating Explanations in History 18. Student Perceptions of History and Historical Concepts 19. Constructing Historical Knowledge at High School: The Case of the Industrial Revolution 20. Promoting the Learning of Causal Explanations in History through Different Teaching Strategies 21. Representation and Understanding of History Notes on Contributors References Index