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Ashby, Rosalyn; And Others – Social Education, 1997
Describes the Chata Project, a British research project that challenged the prevalent assumption that children will construct sound causal explanations from factual information imparted during history instruction. Their research suggests that explicit instruction is required for children to understand the causal relationships among events,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Educational Research