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ERIC Number: EJ460522
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
Storytelling, Imagination, and Fanciful Elaboration in Children's Historical Reconstructions.
VanSledright, Bruce; Brophy, Jere
American Educational Research Journal, v29 n4 p837-59 Win 1992
Historical accounts by fourth graders at the beginning stage of learning history show that these young students lack an experience-based framework for grounding and connecting historical teaching. Implications for teaching history to elementary school students and aspects of children's reliance on imagination in constructing historical narratives are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Children, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, History Instruction, Imagination, Intermediate Grades, Misconceptions, Narration, Story Telling, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Elaboration
Note: Special section with title "Section on Teaching, Learning, and Human Development."