num_pages: 240
description: Two simple but profound questions have preoccupied scholars since the establishment of history education over a century what is historical thinking and how do educators go about teaching it? In Thinking Historically  Stphane Ltvesque examines these questions focusing on what it means to think critically about the past. As students engage in a new century already characterized by global instability uncertainty and rivalry over claims about the past present and future this study revisits enduring questions and aims to offer new and relevant answers. Drawing on a rich collection of personal national and international studies in history education Ltvesque offers a coherent and innovative way of looking at how historical expertise in the domain intersects with the 'pedagogy of history education.' Thinking Historically provides teacher educators and all those working in the field of history education ways of rethinking their practice by presenting some of the benchmarks in terms of procedural concepts of what students ought to learn and do to become more critical historical actors and citizens. As questions regarding history education compel educators with greater force than ever this study explores different ways of approaching and engaging with the discipline in the twenty-first century.
language: English
title: Thinking Historically: Educating Students for the 21st Century
publisher: University of Toronto Press