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Going Beyond Facts: Developing Conceptual Understanding in Young Historians

Candice Yvette Seet Siew Yan (Loyang View Secondary School (Singapore)
Teo See Hian (Loyang View Secondary School (Singapore)
Amelia Yeo Jiaxin (Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School (Singapore)

Keywords
History
Approaches to teaching history

This article discusses the merits of the intentional use of conceptual lenses that spirals across the four years of a student’s secondary-level History education to develop conceptual understandings and powerful knowledge. By developing a concept-driven set of inquiry tasks that spans across levels, it allows repeated engagement with familiar first and second-order concepts, and opportunities for students to deepen their understanding.

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