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“Their Minds Must Be Improved to a Certain Degree”: A Learning Cycles Approach to Inquiry

Parker, Walter (University of Washington) Keywords Social Studies Secondary School Primary School Inquiry Introduction This article introduces a learning cycles model of conducting inquiries with students. It is based on the thinking of philosopher John Dewey (How We Think, 1910) and also on insights from contemporary learning science (e.g., John Bransford et al., How People Learn, […]

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Exploring the Pedagogical Nature of Historical Texts: Implications for Classroom Teaching

Avner Segall (Michigan State University) Keywords History Secondary School Critical Thinking History Textbooks Reading pedagogy into historical texts Such a focus in history education is important because, as we also know, history and the past are not one and the same. Rather, history, as Seixas (1993) explains “is only a discourse about the past, a story

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What about Geography? The Geography Curriculum, Young People, Critical Thinking and Active Learning

Brooks, Clare (Institute of Education, London) Keywords Geography Secondary School Critical Thinking Critical Thinking in Geography Education Critical thinking is a term that has a great deal of popular appeal with many governments, and can be found in several education policy documents around the globe. However a quick internet and literature search reveals that there is

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Research into Practice: Understanding the Vietnam War from the Communists’ Perspective

Royce Chan (National Institute of Education) Cheng Guan Ang (National Institute of Education, Singapore ) Keywords History Junior College Secondary School Southeast Asia History Vietnam Most of us are familiar with the narrative of the Vietnam War as it is commonly told in history textbooks: (1) the United States got involved because they were afraid of the

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