Changing the Narrative: Dissecting Content and Structure Through Historical Thinking

• In Event: Roundtable Session 25
  In Roundtable Session: Elementary Social Studies Pedagogy

Abstract

In this qualitative case study, we examine elementary preservice teachers’ understandings’ of the historical narrative as it is altered by the use of historical thinking. The analysis juxtaposition traditional narratives (e.g. individual achievement and motivation) alternative narratives (e.g. those attentive to empathy and race, class, and gender) in determining the influence of more critical uses of historical thinking.

Authors

• Cinthia S. Salinas, The University of Texas - Austin

• Brooke Blevins, Baylor University