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Bartelds, Hanneke; Savenije, Geerte M.; van Boxtel, Carla – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2020
Teachers' beliefs about skills play a significant role in how they teach those skills. Similarly, students' mastery of a skill is influenced by their ideas about its value and what the performance of the skill exactly entails. In this study, 10 history teachers and 17 students in secondary school (age 16-17) were interviewed about their beliefs…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Mastery Learning, History Instruction
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de Leur, Tessa; van Boxtel, Carla; Huijgen, Tim – History Education Research Journal, 2021
Imagining what it was like to live in the past may help secondary school students to understand historical developments and situations. In this case study, the opportunities of a drama task are explored by using a mixed-method approach. In small groups, Dutch 14-15-year-old students examined historical sources and produced a short film clip on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Group Discussion, Films
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De Leur, Tessa; Van Boxtel, Carla; Wilschut, Arie – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2017
Tasks which invite students to identify with historical actors and describe their perspectives are a common phenomenon in history education. The aim of this study is to explore the differences in students' answers when completing a writing task in first person ("imagine you are in the past") or in third person ("imagine someone in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, History Instruction, Empathy