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Organizing the Past: Historical Accounts, Significance and Unknown Ontologies

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The importance of accounts in history is paramount because histories only exist in the present in the form of accounts of the past in written and in other media. In their chapter Cercadillo, Chapman and Lee focus on students’ understandings of historical narratives and representations per se rather than on the establishment of particular facts or explanations about the past. The authors review what is known about students’ understandings of accounts, and of the related second-order concept historical significance, explaining different empirically based models of progression in historical thinking. Moreover, they offer some novel lines for research in relation to the relevance of cognitive ethics and epistemic dispositions in history education.

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  1. Spanish Ministry of Education, Madrid, Spain

    Lis Cercadillo

  2. UCL Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK

    Arthur Chapman & Peter Lee

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  2. Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Stefan Berger

  3. Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Cercadillo, L., Chapman, A., Lee, P. (2017). Organizing the Past: Historical Accounts, Significance and Unknown Ontologies. In: Carretero, M., Berger, S., Grever, M. (eds) Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52908-4_28

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