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Kim, Geena – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2023
This study is an exploration of how U.S. middle school students interacted with different topics in world history, and how their specific understandings of topics were connected to both sociocultural and instructional contexts. I observed two world history classrooms in a Midwestern Catholic school for 10 months and conducted task-based group…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, World History, Knowledge Level, Social Influences
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Austin, Hilary Mac; Thompson, Kathleen – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2014
History is a process. Just as science is the quest to discover and understand the truth about the world we live in, so history is the quest to discover and understand the truth about our world in the millennia that led up to this moment. These authors asked children who ranged in age from 6 to 12, first grade to sixth, how we know what happened in…
Descriptors: Historical Interpretation, Grade 4, Elementary School Curriculum, History Instruction