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Striving for Disciplinary Literacy Instruction: Cognitive Tools in a World History Course
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Girard, Brian; Harris, Lauren McArthur – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2012
The authors present a case study of a world history teacher's mediation of her students' world historical thinking and writing through unit-level cognitive tools. They analyze both scaffolding and disciplinary tools that the teacher constructed for her students in order to improve their world historical thinking, and the degree to which the…
Descriptors: World History, History Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Case Studies