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.
Preface ix Series Editors Introduction xi Introduction 1(8) James F. Voss Mario Carretero Section I Narrative and Sociocultural Approach to History Teaching and Learning The Structure of Historical Narratives and the Teaching of History 9(14) Jeretz Topolski Historical Representation as Mediated Action: Official History as a Tool 23(16) William R. Penuel James V. Wertsch The Russian Revolution: Official and Unofficial Accounts 39(22) James V. Wertsch Mark Rozin Uses of Historical Knowledge: An Exploration of the Construction of Professional Identity in Students of Psychology 61(18) Alberto Rosa Florentino Blanco Juan A. Huertas Total History and its Enemies in Present-Day Teaching 79(16) Carlos Martinez-Shaw Section II Uses of Texts, Documents and Images in History Learning Understanding Historical Controversies: Students Evaluation and Use of Documentary Evidence 95(22) Jean-Francois Rouet Maureen A. Marron Charles A. Perfetti Monik Favart 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 117(15) Fernando Hernandez Seeing the Past: Learning History through Group Discussion of Iconographic Sources 132(22) Alessandra Fasulo Hilda Girardet Clotilde Pontecorvo Wildflowers, Sheep, and Democracy: The Role of Analogy in the Teaching and Learning of History 154(45) Kathleen McCarthy Young Gaea Leinhardt Section III Historical Explanations Causality in History: On the `Intuitive Understanding of the Concepts of Sufficiency and Necessity 199(15) James F. Voss Joseph Ciarrochi Mario Carretero Influence of Intentional and Personal Factors in Recalling Historical Texts: A Developmental Perspective 214(13) Angel Riviere Maria Nunez Beatriz Barquero Federico Fontela Researching Childrens Ideas about History 227(25) Peter Lee Alaric Dickinson Rosalyn Ashby Evidence Evaluation and Reasoning Abilities in the Domain of History: An Empirical Study 252(20) Margarita Limon Mario Carretero On Reasoning in History 272(9) Ola Hallden Section IV History Teaching and Understanding Goals in History Teaching 281(13) Peter N. Stearns Generating Explanations in History 294(13) Liliana Jacott Asuncion Lopez-Manjon Mario Carretero Student Perceptions of History and Historical Concepts 307(24) James F. Voss Jennifer Wiley Joel Kennet Constructing Historical Knowledge at High School: The Case of the Industrial Revolution 331(13) Teresa Fernandez-Corte Juan Antonio Garcia-Madruga Promoting the Learning of Causal Explanations in History through Different Teaching Strategies 344(16) Jesus Dominguez Juan Ignacio Pozo Representation and Understanding of History 360(18) Bodo von Borries Notes on Contributors 378(6) References 384(29) Index 413
Mario Carretero, James Voss