Rosalyn Ashby is Lecturer in Education, Peter Gordon is Emeritus Professor and Peter Lee is Senior Lecturer in Education, all at the Institute of Education, University of London.

• Introduction: Research and History Education 1. Assessing the Status of Historical Sources: An Exploratory Study of Eight US Elementary Students Reading Documents 2. Students’ Approaches to Validating Historical Claims 3. Digging for Clues: An Archaeological Exploration of Historical Cognition 4. Taiwanese Students’ Understanding of Differences in History Textbook Accounts 5. ‘Till New Facts are Discovered’: Students’ Ideas about Objectivity in History 6. Children’ s Understanding of Historical Narrative in Portugal 7. Between Reproducing and Organizing the Past: Students’ Beliefs about the Standards of Acceptability of Historical Knowledge 8. History, Memory and Learning to Teach 9. The Epistemological Reach of the History Teacher 10. Portuguese History Teachers’ Ideas about History 11. Understanding the Knowledge Bases of History Teaching: Subject, Pupils and Professional Practices 12. Interpreting the Past, Serving the Present: US and English Textbook Portrayals of the Soviet Union During the Second World War

Rosalyn Ashby is Lecturer in Education, Peter Gordon is Emeritus Professor and Peter Lee is Senior Lecturer in Education, all at the Institute of Education, University of London.

• Introduction: Research and History Education 1. Assessing the Status of Historical Sources: An Exploratory Study of Eight US Elementary Students Reading Documents 2. Students’ Approaches to Validating Historical Claims 3. Digging for Clues: An Archaeological Exploration of Historical Cognition 4. Taiwanese Students’ Understanding of Differences in History Textbook Accounts 5. ‘Till New Facts are Discovered’: Students’ Ideas about Objectivity in History 6. Children’ s Understanding of Historical Narrative in Portugal 7. Between Reproducing and Organizing the Past: Students’ Beliefs about the Standards of Acceptability of Historical Knowledge 8. History, Memory and Learning to Teach 9. The Epistemological Reach of the History Teacher 10. Portuguese History Teachers’ Ideas about History 11. Understanding the Knowledge Bases of History Teaching: Subject, Pupils and Professional Practices 12. Interpreting the Past, Serving the Present: US and English Textbook Portrayals of the Soviet Union During the Second World War

Rosalyn Ashby is Lecturer in Education, Peter Gordon is Emeritus Professor and Peter Lee is Senior Lecturer in Education, all at the Institute of Education, University of London.

• Introduction: Research and History Education 1. Assessing the Status of Historical Sources: An Exploratory Study of Eight US Elementary Students Reading Documents 2. Students’ Approaches to Validating Historical Claims 3. Digging for Clues: An Archaeological Exploration of Historical Cognition 4. Taiwanese Students’ Understanding of Differences in History Textbook Accounts 5. ‘Till New Facts are Discovered’: Students’ Ideas about Objectivity in History 6. Children’ s Understanding of Historical Narrative in Portugal 7. Between Reproducing and Organizing the Past: Students’ Beliefs about the Standards of Acceptability of Historical Knowledge 8. History, Memory and Learning to Teach 9. The Epistemological Reach of the History Teacher 10. Portuguese History Teachers’ Ideas about History 11. Understanding the Knowledge Bases of History Teaching: Subject, Pupils and Professional Practices 12. Interpreting the Past, Serving the Present: US and English Textbook Portrayals of the Soviet Union During the Second World War