Levstik, Linda S., and Keith C. Barton. “‘They Still Use Some of their Past’: Historical Salience in Elementary Children's Chronological Thinking.” (1996)

Citation:

Levstik, Linda S., and Keith C. Barton. “‘They Still Use Some of their Past’: Historical Salience in Elementary Children's Chronological Thinking.” Journal of Curriculum Studies 28(5) (1996): 531-76. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/00220272.html

Abstract/Summary:

Reports on the results of an experiment testing 58 elementary school students tasked with chronologically ordering a set of nine historical pictures and thinking aloud about their efforts. Provides increased evidence regarding the kind and sources of children's historical knowledge and how they deploy that knowledge.

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ERIC