Teaching world history as mystery [[electronic resource] /] / Jack Zevin, David Gerwin

• Autore: Zevin Jack
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 907.1/073
• Soggetto topico: History - Study and teaching; History - Study and teaching - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GerwinDavid
• 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; Preface; Acknowledgments; World History in Poetry; one: Teaching World History as Mystery; two: Looking at World History Anew; three: Stones that Speak: Of Megaliths and Monoliths; four: Rome Lasts!: A Mystery of Durability and Power; five: Mythlabeled?: Or, Creating the Crusades; six: The Possibilities for Pizza: A Search for Origins; seven: Incas and Spaniards; eight: Secrets of Secret Societies; nine: Where are the Women in World History?; ten: Finding Mysteries Everywhere: Sources, Resources, and Outright Fabrications; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Offering a philosophy, methodology, and examples for history instruction that are active, imaginative, and provocative, this text presents a fully developed pedagogy based on problem-solving methods that promote reasoning and judgment and restore a sense of imagination and participation to classroom learning. It is designed to draw readers into the detective process that characterizes the work of professional historians and social scientists ? sharing raw data, defining terms, building interpretations, and testing competing theories. An inquiry framework drives both the pedagogy and the cho
• Titolo autorizzato: Teaching world history as mystery
• ISBN: 1-135-14746-9; 0-203-85605-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459085203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II