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ERIC Number: EJ233556
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980-Nov
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A Modern World History Course and the Thinking of Adolescent Pupils.
Booth, Martin
Educational Review, v32 n3 p245-57 Nov 1980
Over 17 months, pupils' abilities to evaluate documentary evidence and to deduce concepts and changes in their attitudes toward the course were assessed. Results emphasize the importance of syllabus and teaching technique, rather than maturation, indicating limitations in studies of children's historical thinking narrowly based on Piagetian theory. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Course Evaluation, Deduction, History Instruction, Secondary Education, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, World History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Piaget (Jean)