Understanding historical time: a study with 6th grade portuguese students about chronology and chang

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2020v5n1p31

Keywords:

Historical Time, Historical thinking, Temporal understanding, Change, chronology.

Abstract

This article presents a contribution to understanding the way children understand historical time and emerges from an empirical study, which is predominantly qualitative and interpretative, carried out with Elementary School students of the 6th grade, in Portugal. With this study, we tried to perceive the students’ ideas and conceptions of temporality, trough event ordering chronological historical facts as well as the construction of narratives, both subordinated to the programmatic content The April Revolution of 1974. A quantitative and qualitative data analysis was performed, in which students’ answers were categorized according to differentiated thinking levels. The result show that students in this education level understand and use complex time concepts in the learning process of History, mainly related to chronology and change.

Author Biographies

Anabela Costa, Ministério da Educação de Portugal

Teacher of History and Geography of Portugal and Portuguese of the 2nd Cycle of Basic Education. Ministério da Educação.

Glória Solé, Universidade do Minho (UM)

Assistant Professor at the Universidade do Minho.

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Published

2020-07-15

How to Cite

COSTA, Anabela; SOLÉ, Glória. Understanding historical time: a study with 6th grade portuguese students about chronology and chang. Educação em Análise, Londrina, v. 5, n. 1, p. 31–56, 2020. DOI: 10.5433/1984-7939.2020v5n1p31. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/educanalise/article/view/40184. Acesso em: 4 jul. 2024.

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