Predominantly master-narrative accounts drop from 83% in 8th grade to 25% in 11th grade¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2019: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? 83% of 8th graders' narratives showed mostly master narrative characteristics versus 25% of 11th graders; mostly historical accounts were 6% versus 40%. → Mario Carretero & Floor van Alphen 2014

Evidence¶

Mario Carretero & Floor van Alphen 2014¶

Mario Carretero & Floor van Alphen. (2014). Do Master Narratives Change Among High School Students? A Characterization of How National History Is Represented. Cognition and Instruction, 32(3), 290-312. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370008.2014.919298

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Narrative-pattern analysis (Table 6) combining all four characteristics per narrative for the 38 students. The article reports narratives with mostly master narrative characteristics in '83% of the 8th graders and 25% of the 11th graders,' with mixed patterns at 11% and 35%.

"Only 6% of the 8th graders, that is, one student, demonstrated a predominantly historical understanding, whereas 40% of the 11th graders did."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Narratives of historical events become more complex from 8th to 11th grade — related
• Older students more often represent the historical subject as heterogeneous — related
• Nation concept shifts from essentialist to constructivist across grades — related
• Identification with the historical subject ('us') does not change across grades — related
• Identification is statistically unrelated to the other three narrative characteristics — related
• Students tend to explain historical events from an intentionalist, personalistic point of view — related