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Educação histórica: uma nova área de investigação

2001; University of Porto; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

2183-0460

Isabel Barca,

Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy

An intensive research on cognition in history has been carried out since the 1970s. Countries such as UK, USA or Canada started to reject traditional routes in history teaching and have searched for new evidence on how students understand history and, mainly, how they construct their knowledge. The paper examines the development of those perspectives as well as some contributions that other countries such as Portugal and Spain have brought up to this field of research.