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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Chapman, Arthur – Teaching History, 2011
Understanding historical interpretation involves understanding how historical knowledge is constructed. How do sixth formers model historical epistemology? In this article Arthur Chapman examines a small sample of data relating to sixth form students' ideas about why historians construct differing interpretations of the past. He argues that…
Descriptors: Historical Interpretation, Historians, Epistemology, History Instruction
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Chapman, Arthur – Teaching History, 2011
Arthur Chapman presents a task-specific scaffold--a "dart" board--designed to teach students how to interrogate sources of information so that these become sources of evidence for particular claims about past actions, beliefs and aims. Chapman also uses his "dart" board to foster students' reflection on the degrees of certainty that they can…
Descriptors: History, Interpersonal Relationship, Physical Environment, Systems Approach