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Understanding Historical Thinking by Christian Gacosta is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The article discusses how historical thinking is an educational concept rather than about history itself. It argues that historical thinking must be distinguished from history in order to be a distinct and pedagogically useful concept. The author provides examples showing how evaluating the credibility of sources is an important part of historical thinking, such as questioning claims from older textbooks that lacked evidence, as well as raising doubts about student beliefs without evidence. Historical think
- Author
- Christian Gacosta
- Language
- EN