The challenge of rethinking history education
Subtitle: on practices, theories, and policy
By: Bruce A. VanSledright
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415873789; 9780415873796; 9780203844847
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Seeking a more potent approach to teaching history; title: On the limits of collective memorialization and persistent instruction; title: The case of Thomas Becker : using knowledge of history as a domain to structure pedagogical choices; title: Learning history : what do students know and what can they do with that knowledge?; title: Teaching about Indian removal : describing and unpacking the investigative approach; title: Assessing student learning; title: Theorizing investigative history teaching; title: How are history teachers to learn to teach using an investigative approach?.