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The main theme of this volume is students and teachers' understanding of the discipline of history. The book reports research in several key areas of historical understanding: children's ideas about evidence, about historical accounts and about objectivity, and offers a paper examining the central notion of progression in ideas about history. It then addresses research into teachers' ideas abou... More

The main theme of this volume is students and teachers' understanding of the discipline of history. The book reports research in several key areas of historical understanding: children's ideas about evidence, about historical accounts and about objectivity, and offers a paper examining the central notion of progression in ideas about history. It then addresses research into teachers' ideas about history. The book concludes with a comparative study of textbooks from three continents, one focus of which is the importance of disciplinary ideas in the sample of books examined.