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  • Transforming Year 11's conceptual understanding of change

      Teaching History article
    For all that history teachers appreciate the need to build substantive knowledge and conceptual understanding systematically over time, they are also likely to have experienced that sickening moment when they realise that a Year 11 pupil has somehow missed something fundamental. In Anna Fielding's case, her pupil's misconception was related to...
    Transforming Year 11's conceptual understanding of change
  • Time and chronology: conjoined twins or distant cousins?

      Teaching History article
    Weaknesses in pupils' grasp of historical chronology are a commonplace in popular discussion of the state of history education. However, as Blow, Lee and Shemilt argue, although undoubtedly necessary and fundamental, mastery of chronological conventions is not sufficient: the difficulties that pupils experience when learning history are conceptual, as much...
    Time and chronology: conjoined twins or distant cousins?