1. Students' historical contextualization and the cold war.
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Huijgen, Tim, Holthuis, Paul, van Boxtel, Carla, van De Grift, Wim, and Suhre, Cor
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HISTORY education , *COLD War, 1945-1991 , *EXPERIMENTAL design , *STUDENT attitudes , *CURRICULUM planning - Abstract
This exploratory study presents an example of how a historical contextualization framework can be used to develop and implement a lesson unit on Cold War events. The effects of the lesson unit on students' ability to perform historical contextualization are explored in a quasi-experimental pre-test–post-test design with an experimental (n = 96) and a control (n = 73) condition. The students' answers on a historical contextualization test were analysed. The results indicate that students in the experimental condition increased their ability to perform historical contextualization and displayed less present-oriented perspectives in their answers compared to students in the control condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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