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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785268103321

Autore

VanSledright Bruce

Titolo

The challenge of rethinking history education : on practices, theories, and policy / / Bruce A. VanSledright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-92301-2

1-136-92302-0

1-282-78106-5

9786612781063

0-203-84484-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

973.0071

Soggetti

History - Study and teaching

United States History Study and teaching

United States History Study and teaching Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Seeking a More Potent Approach to Teaching History; Chapter 2 On the Limits of Collective Memorialization and Persistent Instruction; Chapter 3 The Case of Thomas Becker: Using Knowledge of History as a Domain to Structure Pedagogical Choices; Chapter 4 Learning History: What Do Students Know and What Can They Do with that Knowledge?; Chapter 5 Teaching about Indian Removal: Describing and Unpacking the Investigative Approach; Chapter 6 Assessing Student Learning; Chapter 7 Theorizing Investigative History Teaching

Chapter 8 How Are History Teachers to Learn to Teach Using an Investigative Approach?Appendix; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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