Images of time : the role of an historical consciousness of time in learning history

• Main Author: Wilschut, Arie (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2012.
• Subjects: History > Study and teaching > Philosophy.; Time > Philosophy.; History > Study & Teaching.; Educational psychology.; General and world history.; Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806614783
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-908-8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 285 pages) : illustrations

What makes history difficult to learn is the fact that one has to travel in time. Studying events and circumstances from a time perspective different from our own is something that doesn't come naturally to people. It is an ability that has to be acquired.This book discusses teaching and learni...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The development of history education
• Chapter 2. Historical time
• Chapter 3. Developing and learning a consciousness of time: Review of current research
• Chapter 4. Empirical research into students' orientation in historical time
• Chapter 5. Conclusion
• Notes
• References. Appendices a. Powerpoint presentations used in the lessons according to the chronological and imaginative-associative approaches. B. Content protocols for the lessons based on the chronological and imaginative-associative approaches. c. Summaries of the subject material handed out to the students. D. Questions used for the pre-test and post-test. E. Rules for scoring the pre-test and post-test. F. average scores to all 25 items during the pre-test and post-test. G. results of the paired t-tests applied to the differences between item scores on the pre-test and post-test in group a and group b. H. significance of the difference between groups a and b as summarized in table 4.11
• About the author.