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Using The Aesthetic Stance To Achieve Historical Thinking, Heather J. Bassett Dahl
Using The Aesthetic Stance To Achieve Historical Thinking, Heather J. Bassett Dahl
Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs
This research study focuses on how an aesthetic reading stance with dystopian literature can aid teens in the development of historical thinking skills. My research is based on ideas from Louise Rosenblatt’s transactional theory and Sam Wineburg’s concept and definition for historical thinking along with the UCLA Standards for Historical Thinking. Historical thinking requires students to gain factual information but also experiences. As a social studies teacher, this practitioner inquiry study created an opportunity to explore how I might position students into the intellectual mindsets of historical thinking through fictional reading in the aesthetic stance. This study provided students the …