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Terms and conditions: using metaphor to highlight causal processes with Year 13

Abstract:
Alarmed by his students’ random use of causal language in their essays, James Edward Carroll resolved to help his students improve their understanding of causal processes. Carroll decided to introduce his students to the metaphors that historians use to describe causation in the historiography of the Salem witch trials. By modelling how historians use different types of metaphor to describe the conditions that allowed the witch trials to take place, Carroll showed his students how conditions of events differ from direct causes, and have a different causal role to play.
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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Education
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-5678-1166


Publisher:
Historical Association
Journal:
Teaching History More from this journal
Volume:
187
Pages:
40-49
Publication date:
2022-07-12
Acceptance date:
2022-07-01


Language:
English
Pubs id:
2102389
Local pid:
pubs:2102389
Deposit date:
2025-04-04

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