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Bartelds, Hanneke; Savenije, Geerte M.; van Boxtel, Carla – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2020
Teachers' beliefs about skills play a significant role in how they teach those skills. Similarly, students' mastery of a skill is influenced by their ideas about its value and what the performance of the skill exactly entails. In this study, 10 history teachers and 17 students in secondary school (age 16-17) were interviewed about their beliefs…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Mastery Learning, History Instruction
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Savenije, Geerte M.; van Boxtel, Carla; Grever, Maria – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2014
The history and heritage of slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade are sensitive topics in The Netherlands. Little is known about the ways in which students attribute significance to what is presented as heritage, particularly sensitive heritage. Using theories on historical significance, we explored how students attributed significance to the…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Surveys, Focus Groups, Slavery
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van Boxtel, Carla; van Drie, Jannet – Cognition and Instruction, 2012
An important goal of history education is the development of a chronological frame of reference that can be used to interpret and date historical images and documents. Despite the importance of this contextualization goal, little is known about the knowledge and strategies that allow students to situate information historically. Two studies were…
Descriptors: Cartoons, History Instruction, History, Knowledge Level