Disciplines as Frameworks for Student Learning
Subtitle: Teaching the Practice of the Disciplines
Contributors: Tim Riordan (Editor); James Leonard Roth (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Published: December 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781579221232
Subjects: Higher & further education; Higher; Education; Education / Teaching; Universities and colleges; United States; Interdisciplinary approach in; Curricula; General; College teaching; Interdisciplinary approach in education
First sentence: Teaching history as a framework for student learning means moving away from the practice of presenting semester-long narratives for students to assimilate and instead engaging them in more active learning, perhaps in creating their own narrative interpretations or raising critical questions about the underlying motives and assumptions of the historians they read or listen to in the classroom.