Thinking Historically Educating Students for the 21st Century

Name: Thinking Historically Educating Students for the 21st Century
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ISBN: 9781442610996

ISBN-10: 1442610999

ISBN-13: 9781442610996

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Stephane Levesque

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Two simple but profound questions have preoccupied scholars since the establishment of history education over a century ago: what is historical thinking, and how do educators go about teaching it? In Thinking Historically , Stphane Lnvesque 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, Lvesque offers a coherent and…

Book details

List price: $43.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 10/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Stï¿½phane Lï¿½vesque is professor and director of the Virtual History and Stories Lab at the University of Ottawa



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Nature of History and Historical Thinking



What Is Important in the Past? - Historical Significance



What Changed and What Remained the Same? - Continuity and Change



Did Things Change for Better or Worse? - Progress and Decline



How Do We Make Sense of the Raw Materials of the Past? -Evidence



How Can We Understand Predecessors Who Had Different Moral Frameworks? - Historical Empathy



Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index