Qualifying counterfactuals: Students' use of counterfactuals for evaluating historical explanations

The study investigates upper secondary school students' use of counterfactual reasoning when engaging in a task concerning historical explanation. The study analyses student answers to a prompt asking them to evaluate the causal importance of a historical actor for a historical event, aiming t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joakim Wendell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UCL Press 2020-03-01
Series:History Education Research Journal
Online Access:https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=8462f8e4-e46d-4577-b084-8bdd9776438c