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CHAPTER 3
STUDENTS’ REASONING WHEN CONTEXTUALIZING HISTORICAL AGENTS’ ACTIONS
This chapter examines students’ reasoning when contextualizing historical agents’ actions. Therefore, we first assessed a sample of 15- and 16-year-old pre-university students (n = 143) to determine their ability to contextualize the actions of people in the past. Subsequently, we explored, using thinking aloud methodology, students’ reasoning (n = 36) to uncover their contextualization process. The results of this mixed methodology study indicate that most of the students in the sample performed well when engaging in HPT. Moreover, protocol analysis identified the different reasoning strategies that students employed to successfully perform HPT.
This chapter is based on: Huijgen, T. D., Van Boxtel, C. A. M., Van de Grift, W. J. C. M., & Holthuis, P. (2017). Toward historical perspective taking: Students’ reasoning when contextualizing the actions of people in the past. Theory & Research in Social Education, 45, 110-144. doi:10.1080/00933104.2016.1208597.
