Telling Children about the Past : an Interdisciplinary Perspective.

Telling Children about the Past : an Interdisciplinary Perspective.

This book brings together archeologists, historians, psychologists, and educators from different countries and academic traditions to address the many ways that we tell children about the (distant) past. Knowing the past is fundamentally important for human societies, as well as for individual devel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Galanidou, Nena
Other Authors: Dommasnes, Liv Helga
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2007.
Series:International Monographs in Prehistory: Ethnoarchaeology Ser.
Subjects:
Prehistoric peoples > Study and teaching.
Archaeology and history > Study and teaching.
Archaeology > Study and teaching.
Antiquities, Prehistoric > Study and teaching.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Archaeology and history > Study and teaching
Archaeology > Study and teaching
Prehistoric peoples > Study and teaching
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Table of Contents:
  • Telling Children About the Past; Copyright; Contents; Contributing Authors; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; Part 1. Learning Paths; Chapter 1. Cognitive and Neural Developments that Make it Possible to Experience the Past as the Present; Chapter 2. Autobiography, Time and History; Chapter 3. Representing the Past in Pictures; Chapter 4. Children's Understanding of Authenticity; Part 2. Contexts of Telling I; Chapter 5. Groovin' to Ancient Peru; Chapter 6. Telling Children About the Past using Electronic Games; Chapter 7. In a Child's Eyes
  • Chapter 8. Writing Prehistory for ChildrenChapter 9. Museums and Archeological Sites as the Setting for Wondrous Tales; Part 3. Contexts of Telling II; Chapter 10. Exhibiting the Past to Children; Chapter 11. Eviscerating Barbie; Chapter 12. Conversations About the Past; Chapter 13. Small People versus Big Heritage; Chapter 14. Landscapes and Winter Counts; Chapter 15. Telling Children About the Past in Brazil; Chapter 16. From Fragments to Contexts

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