A Tale worth Telling: Helping Students Construct Stories of the Past
Social Studies Research and Practice
ISSN: 1933-5415
Article publication date: 1 November 2006
Issue publication date: 1 November 2006
Abstract
This article explores the clichéd notion of history as narrative. Within the context of an interesting narrative, events, ideas, and people in the past become plot points instead of detached fragments of data. This re-conception of historical facts as pieces of a story allows
Citation
Gray, K.C. and Fridley, D.E. (2006), "A Tale worth Telling: Helping Students Construct Stories of the Past", Social Studies Research and Practice, Vol. 1 No. 3, pp. 449-456. https://doi.org/10.1108/SSRP-03-2006-B0014
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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