Living and dormant collective memories as contexts of history learning

This article investigates the effect of the vitality of historical issues in collective memory on students' history learning processes and products. Forty 12th grade students of different ethnic background participated in two historical problem-solving learning tasks. The historical issues were...

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Published in:Learning and instruction 2008-06, Vol.18 (3), p.223-237
Main Authors: Goldberg, Tsafrir, Schwarz, Baruch B., Porat, Dan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Argumentation
Bias
Collective memory
Ethnicity
Grade 12
Historical Interpretation
Historical thinking
History Instruction
History learning
Influences
Learning Processes
Memory
Persuasive Discourse
Problem Solving
Resistance to Change
Self Concept
Student Attitudes
Student Reaction
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Summary:This article investigates the effect of the vitality of historical issues in collective memory on students' history learning processes and products. Forty 12th grade students of different ethnic background participated in two historical problem-solving learning tasks. The historical issues were found to differ in their vitality in collective memory as signified by students' consensus, certainty, and reference to the present. Findings showed effects of issue vitality on narrative and argumentative change, and on the relation of historical source evaluation with narrative change. An interaction was found between issue vitality and ethnicity in the source evaluation: more vital collective memory narratives were more resistant to change and more prone to ethnic identity bias.
ISSN:0959-4752
1873-3263
DOI:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2007.04.005