"The story is our best tool for understanding what it is like to be someone else": Historical thinking and ethnic identity in Kieran Egan's imaginative education framework

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dc.contributor.advisorChristou, Theodore
dc.contributor.authorIreland, Katherine E.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-01T16:50:05Z
dc.date.available2023-03-01T16:50:05Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.updated2020-07-22T00:00:00Z
dc.description.abstractThe thesis explores how doing history with first-grade students with emphasis on oral literacy may be approached using Kieran Egan's theory of cognition and learning. This research aims to bring together current research in children's historical thinking with Egan's vision of teaching history in an imaginative education framework. Case study methodology was used explore doing history orally using Egan's framework, and examine whether this is an effective approach to foster students' historical thinking. A class of Grade One students in New Brunswick participated in a three-week unit on Canada's Immigration Boom, including whole-class instruction, small-group activities, a take-home family history project and one-on-one interviews. Findings indicate that arts-based approaches such as drawing and role-play are an effective method for creating discussion and learning among orally literate students. Egan's approach for teaching history to young children appears to offer greater opportunities for examining multiple perspectives in the classroom, and may be a more effective approach to history teaching in the classroom than the current You and Your World K-2 curriculum.
dc.description.copyright©Katherine Ireland, 2012
dc.description.noteScanned from archival print submission.
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dc.format.extentv, 232 pages
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.identifier.oclc(OCoLC)1333704848en
dc.identifier.otherThesis 9033
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/14546
dc.language.isoen_CA
dc.publisherUniversity of New Brunswick
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subject.disciplineEducation
dc.subject.lcshHistory--Study and teaching--New Brunswick.en
dc.subject.lcshOral communication--New Brunswick.en
dc.subject.lcshEgan, Kieran.en
dc.title"The story is our best tool for understanding what it is like to be someone else": Historical thinking and ethnic identity in Kieran Egan's imaginative education framework
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineEducation
thesis.degree.fullnameMaster of Education
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of New Brunswick
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.Ed.

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