This dissertation focuses on socio constructivist pedagogy as it is manifest in the
understanding and experiences by secondary social studies preservice teachers engaging
in the practice of historical reasoning during their apprentice teaching semester. The
means by which they facilitate historical thinking as a socio constructivist concept in
diverse classrooms and the resulting successes, hesitations, and negotiations is of primary
interest in this case study. Further, the intricate circumstances of modern schools and
beginning teachers provide context in this qualitative case study conducted from an
interpretive epistemological perspective.