Development of pupils’ critical thinking skills in the work with historical sources in Lithuania and abroad

Abstract

The article analyses the general education programmes regulating the curriculum (in Lithuania and abroad) as well as the research on the development of critical thinking skills in the work with historical sources recording the requirements for the development of the understanding of the source. It presents the results of the empirical study identifying the problems faced by history teachers during history classes while developing pupils’ critical thinking in the course of their independent work with historical sources.