"It Would Have Been Bad": The Development of Historical Imagination and Empathy in a Group of Secondary-aged Pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties.

Turner, Andrew

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ERIC Number: EJ581656

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1998

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"It Would Have Been Bad": The Development of Historical Imagination and Empathy in a Group of Secondary-aged Pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties.

Turner, Andrew

British Journal of Special Education, v25 n4 p164-67 Dec 1998

Describes the use of imaginative reconstruction and empathy to teach historical perspective to British students (ages 13 and 14) with severe learning difficulties. Lessons focused on writing (or dictating) a story describing the feelings of a sailor about to be involved in the battle with the Spanish Armada. Examples are provided. (DB)

Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Thinking, Empathy, Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Junior High Schools, Perspective Taking, Severe Mental Retardation, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles

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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers

Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom

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