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Honig, Michal; Porat, Dan – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2019
In this article, we examined how high school teachers talked about people in history lessons and how they engaged in or shunned multiperspectivity aspects as they talked about people who lived in the past. Based on an analysis of 40 hours of observations of 5 different classes in 3 Jewish high schools in Israel according to the…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, History Instruction, Jews, Teaching Methods
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Goldberg, Tsafrir; Schwarz, Baruch B.; Porat, Dan – Cognition and Instruction, 2011
A group of 64 Israeli twelfth-grade students of two different ethnic backgrounds participated in an experiment exploring the effects of argumentative design and social identity on the learning of a charged, ethnicity-related historical controversy. Students were divided into two learning conditions: an argumentative-disciplinary condition and a…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Textbooks, Essays, Foreign Countries
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Wineburg, Sam; Mosborg, Susan; Porat, Dan; Duncan, Ariel – American Educational Research Journal, 2007
How is historical knowledge transmitted across generations? What is the role of schooling in that transmission? The authors address these questions by reporting on a thirty-month longitudinal study into how home, school, and larger society served as contexts for the development of historical consciousness among adolescents. Fifteen families drawn…
Descriptors: Historical Interpretation, War, Memory, Foreign Countries