In Search of America's Past Learning to Read History in Elementary School

Name: In Search of America's Past Learning to Read History in Elementary School
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ISBN: 9780807741924

ISBN-10: 0807741922

ISBN-13: 9780807741924

Edition: 2002

Authors: Bruce VanSledright, O. L. Davis

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This text shows how young students can benefit from an investigative, inquiry-based approach to the study of history, as called for by US national standards.

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 4/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.19" wide x 8.96" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Bruce VanSledright is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Foreword
Preface
W(h)ither History Education?	p. 1
Conducting Historical Investigations with Fifth-Graders	p. 24
History as an Interpretive Act: The Problem of Indeterminate Evidence Trails	p. 36
The Wiles of Evidence, Interpretation, and Reinscription: Investigating British Colonies in America	p. 53
Source Perspective, Reliability, and Subtext: Investigating Causes of the American Revolution	p. 78
Acquiring Procedures and a Discourse for Investigating the Past	p. 105
W(h)ither History Education Revisited	p. 138
Research Method	p. 157
Documents and Images Used in the Two Performance Tasks	p. 166
Documents Used for In-Class Investigation of the Jamestown Starving Time	p. 173
References	p. 179
Index	p. 185
About the Author	p. 189
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