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  • 26 - Learning History

  • from Part V - Learning Disciplinary Knowledge
  • Edited by R. Keith Sawyer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences
    Published online:
    14 March 2022
    Print publication:
    07 April 2022, pp 523-542

  • Summary

    History learning in schools often focuses on facts such as dates of important events and names of influential politicians or military leaders. This chapter instead considers history knowledge to be of two types: historical concepts and historical narratives. The chapter reviews two types of conceptual knowledge: first-order concepts like peasants and presidents, and second-order concepts like change and continuity, and cause and consequence. The chapter reviews many features of historical narratives, including the representation of national identity, the role of emotion in learning, the presence of mythical figures and motives, and the national or ethnic search for freedom or territory. A deeper understanding of history requires students to “think historically” – to engage in the professional practices of historians such as gathering evidence, developing theories, and translating the past into the present.