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Sellin, Jonathan – Teaching History, 2020
Intrigued by the wide range of pupils' responses to a sourcebased essay question, Jonathan Sellin decided to investigate why pupils were using sources in such different ways. Probing his own philosophical assumptions about history, and how they have changed over time, prompted Sellin to explore pupils' assumptions about how historians use sources…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Essays
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Kohlmeier, Jada – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2006
This study reports the impact of consistently using a Socratic Seminar to interpret historical documents written by women on 9th grade students' historical empathy. Over the course of one semester in a year-long world history course, the class examined three documents written by women living in the complex time period being studied and discussed…
Descriptors: Grade 9, World History, History Instruction, Primary Sources