Amy von Heyking: Children's Historical Thinking in the Middle Years (Part 3)
Duration: 46 seconds
Dr. Amy von Heyking provides an overview of Peter Seixas' six specific elements in the structure of the discipline of history: significance; epistemology and evidence; continuity and change; progress and decline; empathy and judgment; historical agency. The elements provide a framework for an analysis of historical thinking. (Presentation at the 2005 Social Studies Summer Institute)
See a biography of Amy von Heyking