Amy von Heyking: Children's Historical Thinking in the Middle Years (Part 1)
Duration: 7 minutes, 33 seconds
Dr. Amy von Heyking speaks to understandings of history as a discipline and new understandings about the nature and purpose of history teaching. History is a form of inquiry that helps us construct understanding of our lives individually and collectively in time. It is an interpretive discipline grounded in evidence. (Presentation at the 2005 Social Studies Summer Institute)
See a biography of Amy von Heyking