Keith C Barton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 546468 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Keith C Barton |
| NOMBRES | Keith C |
| APELLIDO | Barton |
| FIRMA | BARTON K C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6758-6806 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 178 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Knowledge without disciplines
Although the social realist position is grounded in the fundamentally important observation that schools must engage students with knowledge that deepens and extends their understanding, rather than simply reproduce what they learn in everyday life, this approach commits a fatal flaw by equating such ‘powerful knowledge’ with the work of academic disciplines—a position also taken by many scholars working outside the social realist tradition. The …
Collaborative deliberation in the classroom
To expand students’ preparation for civic life, many teachers regularly engage students in discussions related to contentious issues. These discussions, however, typically restrict the range of communicative styles allowed and prioritizes disagreements between fixed and competing choices. Keith C. Barton & Li-Ching recommend that educators instead engage students in collaborative deliberation — an authentic problem-solving model of discussion tha…
Critical harmony
This paper makes the case for including critical harmony as a complement to justice within civic education. The concept of harmony is significant for civic education because it acknowledges the crucial role that relationships play in society—an important moral, ethical, and social ideal in many cultures around the world. Harmony must also incorporate a critical dimension, however, by embracing conflict and tension, valuing difference and diversit…
Doing History
Now in its sixth edition, Doing History offers a unique perspective on teaching and learning history in the elementary and middle grades. Through case studies of teachers and students in diverse classrooms and from diverse backgrounds, it shows children engaging in authentic historical investigations, often in the context of an integrated social studies curriculum. The book is grounded in the view that children can engage in valid forms of histor…
Cultivating sprouts of benevolence
A central goal of civic and multicultural education is preparing young people to participate in deliberatively informed action on important social issues. In order to achieve this goal, educators need to cultivate young people’s innate but partial ‘sprouts’ of benevolence, which are rooted in feelings of empathy and compassion. Without a sense of benevolence, students are unlikely to be motivated to deliberate and take action on the needs of othe…
Preparation for civil society
Civic education historically has focused primarily on preparing students to influence politics and government policy. Less attention has been paid to the curricular implications of civil society, even though it is a crucial site for deliberatively informed action and one of the primary ways in which students will enter the public sphere. This article highlights the importance of civil society as a component of civic education and critically exami…
Students’ Understanding of Institutional Practices
This study used task-based group interviews with young adolescents in four countries to investigate their understanding of the causes of human rights violations, means for protecting human rights, and their own potential role in ensuring human rights. Although students recognized the role of personal and institutional factors in both violating and protecting human rights, their ideas for influencing human rights focused primarily on the personal …
Researching History Education
Epilogue Part Iii
Doing History
Now in its fifth edition, Doing History offers a unique perspective on teaching and learning history in the elementary and middle grades. Through case studies of teachers and students in diverse classrooms and from diverse backgrounds, it shows children engaging in authentic historical investigations, often in the context of an integrated social studies curriculum. The premise is that children can engage in valid forms of historical inquiry—colle…
Elicitation Techniques
Elicitation techniques are a category of research tasks that use visual, verbal, or written stimuli to encourage participants to talk about their ideas. These tasks are particularly useful for exploring topics that may be difficult to discuss in formal interviews, such as those that involve sensitive issues or rely on tacit knowledge. Elicitation techniques can also reduce power imbalances between interviewers and respondents, and they can enhanc…
Trying to “See Things Differently”
This study illustrates the processes by which 8 pairs of adolescents in Northern Ireland struggled to come to grips with tensions between school and community history. Findings are based on data collected through open-ended, semi-structured interviews with students from a variety of backgrounds. Although these students appreciated the attempt by schools to present a neutral and balanced approach to the past, many had difficulty fully engaging wit…
Doing History
Now in its fourth edition, this popular text offers a unique perspective on teaching and learning history in the elementary and middle grades. Through case studies of teachers and students in diverse classrooms and from diverse backgrounds, it shows children engaging in authentic historical investigations, often in the context of an integrated social studies curriculum. The central assumption is that children can engage in valid forms of historic…
Home Geography and the Development of Elementary Social Education, 1890–1930
Home geography was the principal means by which primary students in the United States learned about the social world from the 1890s through the 1920s. This subject was rooted in the German subject of Heimatkunde, and it reflected the changing nature of the academic discipline of geography in the late nineteenth century. Its content focused on basic human activities, starting with the experiences closest to students and gradually expanding outward…
Research Methods in Social Studies Education
This volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship on social studies education by providing thoughtful reflections on research methods in the field. It is not a “how to” guide but an exploration of key issues related to the design and implementation of empirical studies. The authors are active researchers who use varied methods in diverse settings—including historical research, international comparative studies, survey research, interviews wi…
History, identity, and the school curriculum in Northern Ireland
This study reports results of an empirical investigation of secondary students' conceptions of history and identity in Northern Ireland. Interviews with 253 students from a variety of backgrounds indicate that they initially identify with a wide range of historical themes, but that these identifications narrow as they study the required national curriculum during the first 3 years of secondary school. Often, they draw selectively from the formal …
Doing History
Doing History: Investigating With Children in Elementary and Middle Schools, Third Edition offers a unique perspective on history instruction in the elementary and middle grades. Through case studies of teachers and students in diverse classrooms and from diverse backgrounds, the text shows children engaging in authentic historical investigations, often in the context of an integrated social studies curriculum.The authors begin with the assumptio…
Divided Mastery
Book Review| July 01 2005 Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South, Jonathan D. Martin. Keith C. Barton Keith C. Barton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (4): 116–117. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501645 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Keith C. Barton; D…
Best Not to Forget Them”
This study investigated Catholic and Protestant students' ideas about historical significance in Northern Ireland. The research was conducted in two secondary schools in a medium-sized rural town, and data were derived from a ranking task and semi-structured interview with 40 students, aged 12–17, equally divided between the two communities. Students of both backgrounds emphasized the importance of community conflict and remembrance; in addition,…
Teaching History for the Common Good
In Teaching History for the Common Good, Barton and Levstik present a clear overview of competing ideas among educators, historians, politicians, and the public about the nature and purpose of teaching history, and they evaluate these debates in light of current research on students' historical thinking. In many cases, disagreements about what should be taught to the nation's children and how it should be presented reflect fundamental differences…
Reflecting on Elementary Children's Understanding of History and Social Studies
Beginning teachers in Northern Ireland and the United States conducted structured inquiry projects in which they investigated elementary children's understanding of history and social studies. Interviews with the teachers and analysis of their written assignments indicate that these investigations challenged their beliefs about children's prior knowledge and their own instructional techniques. Teachers initially believed that inadequate cognitive…
History Teaching and the Perpetuation of Memories
Teaching history in a society that has experienced violent and on-going conflict, at least partially as a consequence of contested views of national identity, presents significant challenges for educators. This is particularly true in Northern Ireland, where the continued existence of two parallel educational systems often has been implicated in the perpetuation of community divisions, and where new directions in education are regularly promoted …
Masculinity and Schooling
(2002). Masculinity and Schooling. Theory & Research in Social Education: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 306-312
You'd Be Wanting to Know about the Past
This research reports the results of two studies of young children's historical thinking, one conducted in Northern Ireland and one in the USA. In both countries, primary/elementary students learn about history in a variety of settings, including not only schools but also family conversations, historic sites and the media. The differing nature of historical representations in the two countries, however, leads students to contrasting conclusions a…
A Sociocultural Perspective on Children’s Understanding of Historical Change
This research examines the extent to which specific forms of historical representation in Northern Ireland and the United States serve as “cultural tools” that shape understanding of change over time. On the basis of classroom observations and interviews with children in Northern Ireland, and using comparisons with previous U.S. research, this study found that children in the two locations differed in their explanations of how and why social and …
Elicitation Techniques
Elicitation techniques are a category of research tasks that use visual, verbal, or written stimuli to encourage participants to talk about their ideas. These tasks are particularly useful for exploring topics that may be difficult to discuss in formal interviews, such as those that involve sensitive issues or rely on tacit knowledge. Elicitation techniques can also reduce power imbalances between interviewers and respondents, and they can enhanc…
Back When God Was Around and Everything”
In order to investigate elementary children’s understanding of historical time, we conducted open–ended interviews with 58 children from kindergarten through sixth grade. In order to overcome the limitations of previous research in this area, we asked children to place pictures from various periods of American history in order and to talk about their reasoning. We found that even the youngest children made some basic distinctions in historical ti…
Trying to “See Things Differently”
This study illustrates the processes by which 8 pairs of adolescents in Northern Ireland struggled to come to grips with tensions between school and community history. Findings are based on data collected through open-ended, semi-structured interviews with students from a variety of backgrounds. Although these students appreciated the attempt by schools to present a neutral and balanced approach to the past, many had difficulty fully engaging wit…
A Sociocultural Perspective on Children’s Understanding of Historical Change
This research examines the extent to which specific forms of historical representation in Northern Ireland and the United States serve as “cultural tools” that shape understanding of change over time. On the basis of classroom observations and interviews with children in Northern Ireland, and using comparisons with previous U.S. research, this study found that children in the two locations differed in their explanations of how and why social and …
I Just Kinda Know”
This study examined fourth and fifth graders' ideas about historical evidence through a year–long qualitative study of two classrooms. It identifies significant strengths in students' understanding of the reliability of sources but also points to drawbacks in their use of evidence to reach conclusions. Although students could examine sources critically, they rarely did so spontaneously, and when developing historical accounts they either ignored …
You'd Be Wanting to Know about the Past
This research reports the results of two studies of young children's historical thinking, one conducted in Northern Ireland and one in the USA. In both countries, primary/elementary students learn about history in a variety of settings, including not only schools but also family conversations, historic sites and the media. The differing nature of historical representations in the two countries, however, leads students to contrasting conclusions a…
Best Not to Forget Them”
This study investigated Catholic and Protestant students' ideas about historical significance in Northern Ireland. The research was conducted in two secondary schools in a medium-sized rural town, and data were derived from a ranking task and semi-structured interview with 40 students, aged 12–17, equally divided between the two communities. Students of both backgrounds emphasized the importance of community conflict and remembrance; in addition,…
Reflecting on Elementary Children's Understanding of History and Social Studies
Beginning teachers in Northern Ireland and the United States conducted structured inquiry projects in which they investigated elementary children's understanding of history and social studies. Interviews with the teachers and analysis of their written assignments indicate that these investigations challenged their beliefs about children's prior knowledge and their own instructional techniques. Teachers initially believed that inadequate cognitive…
Preparation for civil society
Civic education historically has focused primarily on preparing students to influence politics and government policy. Less attention has been paid to the curricular implications of civil society, even though it is a crucial site for deliberatively informed action and one of the primary ways in which students will enter the public sphere. This article highlights the importance of civil society as a component of civic education and critically exami…
History Education and National Identity in Northern Ireland and the United States
2001). History Education and National Identity in Northern Ireland and the United States: Differing Priorities. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 40, Rethinking the Social Studies, pp. 48-54
Research, Instruction, and Public Policy in the History Curriculum
Editor's Note: As educators and policy—makers have attempted to reform or revitalize the school curriculum in the past decade, the history curriculum has been the subject of numerous research efforts and policy initiatives. But, as several of these authors note, policy recommendations are rarely informed by careful attention to either research on historical thinking and learning or to the concerns of classroom teachers. The following essays, whic…
Marriage dimensions and personality
Students’ Understanding of Institutional Practices
This study used task-based group interviews with young adolescents in four countries to investigate their understanding of the causes of human rights violations, means for protecting human rights, and their own potential role in ensuring human rights. Although students recognized the role of personal and institutional factors in both violating and protecting human rights, their ideas for influencing human rights focused primarily on the personal …
Home Geography and the Development of Elementary Social Education, 1890–1930
Home geography was the principal means by which primary students in the United States learned about the social world from the 1890s through the 1920s. This subject was rooted in the German subject of Heimatkunde, and it reflected the changing nature of the academic discipline of geography in the late nineteenth century. Its content focused on basic human activities, starting with the experiences closest to students and gradually expanding outward…
Good Cooks and Washers
Journal Article "Good Cooks and Washers": Slave Hiring, Domestic Labor, and the Market in Bourbon County, Kentucky Get access Keith C. Barton Keith C. Barton associate professor School of Education, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 436–460, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952566 Published: 01 Septe…
Personality, Motivation, and Marital Role Factors as Predictors of Life Data in Married Couples
K. Barton, G. Kawash, R. B. Cattell, Personality, Motivation, and Marital Role Factors as Predictors of Life Data in Married Couples, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Aug., 1972), pp. 474-480
Personality Characteristics of Female Psychology, Science and Art Majors
Using Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Test the personality profiles of psychology, art, and science majors at Wellesley College were compared among themselves and with an older group of successful female psychologists. A discriminant function analysis yielded significant similarities and differences between the psychology, art, and science major groups
Prediction of School Achievement from Motivation, Personality, and Ability Measures
Personality (16 PF), Motivation (MAT) and Ability (CFIQ) tests were given to 169 6th grade and 142 7th grade children. Approximately 3 mo. later the same children were given standardized achievement tests (ETS) in the areas of mathematics, science, social studies, and reading and their performance on these subjects was predicted from the personality, motivation and ability measures. It was concluded that personality, motivation and ability variab…
Real and Perceived Similarities in Personality between Spouses
Cattell and Nesselroade (1967) examined the hypothesis that the personality structures of spouses enjoying a stable marriage were more similar to each other than the personalities involved in an unstable marriage. An alternate hypothesis would be that personalities tend to complement each other in stable marriages but not so in unstable marriages. Results were in favor of the former “likeness” hypothesis as more positive correlations between pers…
Marriage dimensions and personality
Personality, Motivation, and Marital Role Factors as Predictors of Life Data in Married Couples
K. Barton, G. Kawash, R. B. Cattell, Personality, Motivation, and Marital Role Factors as Predictors of Life Data in Married Couples, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Aug., 1972), pp. 474-480
A Repeated Measures Investigation of the Relation of the School Motivation Analysis Test to Academic Achievement
Standardized tests of social studies, science, mathematics and reading achievement, along with questionnaire measures of intelligence and motivation, were administered three times, at 6-mo. intervals, to 109 girls and 149 boys enrolled in a central Illinois junior high school. With sex, intelligence and motivation treated as independent variables, 40 repeated-measures analyses of variance were computed to determine if these factors were associate…
Prediction of Objective Motivation Test Scores in Adolescence From Family Demographic Variables
Personality Variables as Predictors of Attitudes toward Science and Religion
114 13-yr.-old girls and 91 13-yr.-old boys, all from British public schools (public in the American sense, i.e., not private) were given Cattell's High School Personality Questionnaire (HSPQ), the Science Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ) and the Religious Attitude Scale (RAS). Regression analyses were performed to assess the degree of prediction of attitudes toward science and religion from personality variables. Results indicated that while the per…
Personality Correlates of Verbal and Spatial Ability
One hundred seventy-five undergraduate students took Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor questionnaire (16 P.F.) and Thurston's Primary Mental Abilities test (PMA). Subjects were divided into the following three groups on the basis of their PMA subtest scores -A “high verbal-low spatial” group (HiV - LoS), an “intermediate” group, and a “high spatial-low verbal” group (HiS - LoV).On the basis of previous work with HiV - LoS and HiS - LoV subject…
Changes in Psychological State Measures and Time of Day
Psychological state measures were obtained on over two thousand junior high school students. Half of the students were tested relatively early in the day and the other half late in the day. Results indicated that self-reported measures of anxiety, stress, regression and depression tended to be higher for the group tested near the end of the school day than for those tested early in the day. A major methodological implication is that we should hav…
Longitudinal Study of Achievement Related to Anxiety and Extraversion
The High School Personality Questionnaire was administered to over 300 sixth and seventh grade children and 3 mo. later these same children completed standardized achievement tests in social studies, science, mathematics, and reading. Treating the achievement scores as dependent variables and various personality scales as independent variables, analyses of variance were performed for each achievement area. Results indicated several significant ma…
Church Membership and Personality
Groups of active churchmembers and non-churchmemhers were examined for personality changes over a five-year period. Personality assessment was obtained through use of the Sixteen Personality Factor (16 PF) questionnaire. Results indicated that at both testing times the active churchmember group was significantly and consistently different on several personality dimensions. Specifically the active churchmembers tended to be more tender-minded, hig…
Differences between Mothers and Fathers in Teaching Style and Child-Rearing Practices
Parent-child interaction was recorded while 32 mothers and 32 fathers taught their children to play a simple game in a naturalistic environment. Steward and Steward's (1973, 1974) Parent Interaction Code was used to quantify the parent-child behaviors and analyses showed that mothers differed from fathers on several dimensions involving teaching style. Such differences were also found for the child-rearing practices of the parents
Prediction of Marital Roles from Normal and Pathological Dimensions of Personality
By means of stepwise multiple regression, 12 factors of the Marriage Role Questionnaire were regressed on factors of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and 25 scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. The regressions were run with the predictor instruments separately and combined. Individually, the MMPI proved superior to the 16 PF in predicting to the factors of the Marriage Role Questionnaire. However, in six cases ou…
Peer-Directed Behaviors and Interactions of Infants in Group Care
The behaviors of each of eight 12- to 14-mo.-old infants were filmed at two frames per second for 15 min. Infants averaged 9.5 bouts of behavior directed toward peers, primarily looking. The median total duration of peer behavior was 92 sec.; they were alone most of the time. Objects did not seem to be mediators of peer interaction. Analysis of bout-durations indicated that, to capture sequences of “general” categories of behavior, observation in…
Prediction of Objective Child Motivation Test Scores from Parents' Reports of Child-Rearing Practices
The mothers and fathers of 310 junior high school children completed a child-rearing questionnaire and the children completed the School Motivation Analysis Test. The mothers' and fathers' data were factor analyzed separately and factor scores computed and employed as predictor variables in separate sets of multiple regression analyses employing the childrens' school motivation scores as criteria. Of the 40 possible full model R 2 s 29 were signi…
Farmers' Personality Related to Implementation of Integrated Pest Management
Although integrated pest management (IPM) practices have been shown to be socially and economically beneficial to those who implement them, lower than expected rates of adoption have been found Personality (or cognitive) variables related to implementation of specific IPM practices by farmers were studied for the purpose of using personality attributes as predictors of adoption. Specific personality variables were reasonably powerful in predictin…
The Nature of Stress in Child-Abusing Families
An instrument for measuring stress (the Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes: FILE) was administered to 151 parents of abused children. A factor analytic treatment of the results indicated that ten different aspects of stress (factors) best explained the data. Several of these factors seemed to be unique to the abusing environment while the rest were similar to those found in less atypical samples. The results suggest that (a) “local facto…
Stress Reduction in Child-Abusing Families
This study compared in-home treatment to traditional county services for their ability to reduce stress in child-abusing families. 47 families who were at risk for having at least one child removed from the home for child abuse were referred to Families First for an intensive 6-wk., in-home therapy program. A comparison group of 29 families who were also at risk for having at least one child removed for abuse received traditional county services …
Research, Instruction, and Public Policy in the History Curriculum
Editor's Note: As educators and policy—makers have attempted to reform or revitalize the school curriculum in the past decade, the history curriculum has been the subject of numerous research efforts and policy initiatives. But, as several of these authors note, policy recommendations are rarely informed by careful attention to either research on historical thinking and learning or to the concerns of classroom teachers. The following essays, whic…
Back When God Was Around and Everything”
In order to investigate elementary children’s understanding of historical time, we conducted open–ended interviews with 58 children from kindergarten through sixth grade. In order to overcome the limitations of previous research in this area, we asked children to place pictures from various periods of American history in order and to talk about their reasoning. We found that even the youngest children made some basic distinctions in historical ti…
Back When God Was around and Everything
In order to investigate elementary children’s understanding of historical time, we conducted open–ended interviews with 58 children from kindergarten through sixth grade. In order to overcome the limitations of previous research in this area, we asked children to place pictures from various periods of American history in order and to talk about their reasoning. We found that even the youngest children made some basic distinctions in historical ti…
I Just Kinda Know”
This study examined fourth and fifth graders' ideas about historical evidence through a year–long qualitative study of two classrooms. It identifies significant strengths in students' understanding of the reliability of sources but also points to drawbacks in their use of evidence to reach conclusions. Although students could examine sources critically, they rarely did so spontaneously, and when developing historical accounts they either ignored …
Good Cooks and Washers
Journal Article "Good Cooks and Washers": Slave Hiring, Domestic Labor, and the Market in Bourbon County, Kentucky Get access Keith C. Barton Keith C. Barton associate professor School of Education, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 436–460, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952566 Published: 01 Septe…
“It Wasn't a Good Part of History”
In this study, we investigated middle graders' understanding of significance in U.S. history through open-ended interviews with forty-eight students in grades five through eight. Students pointed to steadily expanding lights and opportunities as a central theme in U.S. history, but they also had difficulty incorporating some historical patterns and events into their image of progress. This study suggests that students need experience with the com…
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