Publication: Historical Thinking in the early years: the power of image and narrative
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Arias Ferrer, Laura ; Egea Vivancos, Alejandro ; Levstik, Linda S.
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Springer
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19266-2_10
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This chapter seeks to analyze empirically the abilities of 4- and 5 year-old children regarding historical thinking skills when dealing with symbology and picture-based narratives of the past. It is based on the answers obtained after the development of a specific storytelling strategy where students observe a sequence of images related to a tale written and set in Ancient Egypt, from which they build a narrative to explain their observations. Children’s negotiations regarding their interpretations provide evidence of their capacity for historical thinking when history is presented through stories and narrative-based inquiry. The study was developed in five classrooms with a total of 116 participating students. The chapter concludes
that young children are able to deduce information from images, to create complex argumentations, to take some historical perspective and to link the actions in a temporal and causal sequence. Therefore, they are capable of developing some embryonic reasoning, which we consider to be the seed of historical thinking.
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