‘A lot of guess work goes on’
Children’s understandingof
h i s t o r i c a l a c c o u n t s
The ESRC-funded Project Chata has collected evidence of children’s ideas about the discipline
of history and attempted to see if there is any progression in those...
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‘A lot of guess work goes on’
Children’s understandingof
h i s t o r i c a l a c c o u n t s
The ESRC-funded Project Chata has collected evidence of children’s ideas about the discipline
of history and attempted to see if there is any progression in those ideas.
Here, Peter Lee
describes how Chata has tried to map children’s ideas about historical accounts.
History teachers
(and tutors and managers of history teachers) who are trying to extend and explore the bases
of their professional knowledge will find this clear and lively account an invaluable starting point
for considering the role of the Chata project, its methods and findings.
Peter
Lee
(History
Education
Unit,
Curriculum
Studies
Group,
University
of
London
Institute
of
Education)
is
a
member
of
the
Chata
project
team.
Project
Chata
(Concepts
of
History
and
Teaching
Approaches
at
Key
Stages
2
and
3)
was
funded
by
the
Economic
and
Social
Research
Council.
The
project
team
also
included
Rosalyn
Ashby,
Manling
Chau
and
Alari
Less
