The Challenge Of Rethinking History Education

Author : Bruce A. VanSledright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136923012
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Rethinking History Education written by Bruce A. VanSledright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every few years in the United States, history teachers go through what some believe is an embarrassing national ritual. A representative group of students sit down to take a standardized U.S. history test, and the results show varied success. Sizable percentages of students score at or below a "basic" understanding of the country’s history. Pundits seize on these results to argue that not only are students woefully ignorant about history, but history teachers are simply not doing an adequate job teaching historical facts. The overly common practice of teaching history as a series of dates, memorizing the textbook, and taking notes on teachers’ lectures ensues. In stark contrast, social studies educators like Bruce A. VanSledright argue instead for a more inquiry-oriented approach to history teaching and learning that fosters a sense of citizenship through the critical skills of historical investigation. Detailed case studies of exemplar teachers are included in this timely book to make visible, in an easily comprehensible way, the thought processes of skilled teachers. Each case is then unpacked further to clearly address the question of what history teachers need to know to teach in an investigative way. The Challenge of Rethinking History Education is a must read for anyone looking for a guide to both the theory and practice of what it means to teach historical thinking, to engage in investigative practice with students, and to increase students’ capacity to critically read and assess the nature of the complex culture in which they live.

Author : Bruce VanSledright
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415873789
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Rethinking History Education written by Bruce VanSledright and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every few years in the United States, history teachers go through what some believe is an embarrassing national ritual. A representative group of students sit down to take a standardized U.S. history test, and the results show varied success. Sizable percentages of students score at or below a "basic" understanding of the countryâe(tm)s history. Pundits seize on these results to argue that not only are students woefully ignorant about history, but history teachers are simply not doing an adequate job teaching historical facts. The overly common practice of teaching history as a series of dates, memorizing the textbook, and taking notes on teachersâe(tm) lectures ensues. In stark contrast, social studies educators like Bruce A. VanSledright argue instead for a more inquiry-oriented approach to history teaching and learning that fosters a sense of citizenship through the critical skills of historical investigation. Detailed case studies of exemplar teachers are included in this timely book to make visible, in an easily comprehensible way, the thought processes of skilled teachers. Each case is then unpacked further to clearly address the question of what history teachers need to know to teach in an investigative way. The Challenge of Rethinking History Education is a must read for anyone looking for a guide to both the theory and practice of what it means to teach historical thinking, to engage in investigative practice with students, and to increase studentsâe(tm) capacity to critically read and assess the nature of the complex culture in which they live.

Author : Bruce VanSledright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136923020
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Rethinking History Education written by Bruce VanSledright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Challenge of Rethinking History Education, Bruce A. VanSledright argues for a more inquiry-oriented approach to history teaching and learning that fosters a sense of citizenship through the critical skills of historical investigation.

Author : Nikki Mandell
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870204831
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Like a Historian written by Nikki Mandell and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Like a Historian: Rethinking History Instruction by Nikki Mandell and Bobbie Malone is a teaching and learning framework that explains the essential elements of history and provides "how to" examples for building historical literacy in classrooms at all grade levels. With practical examples, engaging and effective lessons, and classroom activities that tie to essential questions, Thinking Like a Historian provides a framework to enhance and improve teaching and learning history. We invite you to use Thinking Like a Historian to bring history into your classroom or to re-energize your teaching of this crucial discipline in new ways. The contributors to Thinking Like a Historian are experienced historians and educators from elementary through university levels. This philosophical and pedagogical guide to history as a discipline uses published standards of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the National Council for History Education, the National History Standards and state standards for Wisconsin and California.

Author : Bill Bigelow
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
ISBN 13 : 094296120X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Columbus written by Bill Bigelow and published by Rethinking Schools. This book was released on 1998 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides resources for teaching elementary and secondary school students about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.

Author : Thomas Bender
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520936035
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking American History in a Global Age written by Thomas Bender and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating the study of American history in a transnational context, they examine the history of nation-making and the relation of the United States to other nations and to transnational developments. What is now called globalization is here placed in a historical context. A cast of distinguished historians from the United States and abroad examines the historiographical implications of such a reframing and offers alternative interpretations of large questions of American history ranging from the era of European contact to democracy and reform, from environmental and economic development and migration experiences to issues of nationalism and identity. But the largest issue explored is basic to all histories: How does one understand, teach, and write a national history even as one recognizes that the territorial boundaries do not fully contain that history and that within that bounded territory the society is highly differentiated, marked by multiple solidarities and identities? Rethinking American History in a Global Age advances an emerging but important conversation marked by divergent voices, many of which are represented here. The various essays explore big concepts and offer historical narratives that enrich the content and context of American history. The aim is to provide a history that more accurately reflects the dimensions of American experience and better connects the past with contemporary concerns for American identity, structures of power, and world presence.

Author : Cameron White
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681234998
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Social Studies and History Education written by Cameron White and published by IAP. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is unique in that it mixes theory and practical applications in rethinking traditional social studies education. It focuses on essays integrating media, popular culture, and alternative texts for teaching and learning in social studies and history education through a social education lens. Social education integrates social studies, media / popular culture, and cultural studies all within a social justice framework. The text provides 20+ curriculum themes with strategies to connect in teaching and learning, along with resources to extend depth of understanding. In addition, the pedagogical philosophy inherent in the essays is student-centered learning focusing on issues, problem, and project-based instruction. Although the themes are generally social studies and history focused, the links to media and popular culture can be integrated in other disciplines.

Author : Bill Bigelow
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
ISBN 13 : 0942961390
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A People's History for the Classroom written by Bill Bigelow and published by Rethinking Schools. This book was released on 2008 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of lessons and activities for teaching American history for students in middle school and high school.

Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814781411
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History written by Peter N. Stearns and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-part volume identifies the problems and issues in late 20th and early 21st-century history education, working towards an understanding of this evolving field. It aims to give both students and teachers insights into the best way of developing historical understanding in pupils.

Author : Martínez-Hita, María
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668452413
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cases on Historical Thinking and Gamification in Social Studies and Humanities Education written by Martínez-Hita, María and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on history education and historical thinking is becoming increasingly relevant internationally. The need for a renewal of history education is not only justified by the epistemology of history itself, but also by the demand for a methodological change in education in general, making students active protagonists in the construction of their learning and based on the development of competencies. Further study on the potential use of gamification within social studies and humanities education is required to understand its benefits and challenges. Cases on Historical Thinking and Gamification in Social Studies and Humanities Education proposes and analyzes gamification as a pedagogical innovation that can enable the renewal of the teaching and learning process of history, facilitating the active learning of historical thinking concepts while influencing students' conceptions of history as a discipline and as a school subject. Covering key topics such as historical thinking, social sciences, video games, and mobile learning, this reference work is ideal for historians, policymakers, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.