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Thinking historically : educating students for the twenty-first century  Cover Image Book Book

Thinking historically : educating students for the twenty-first century / Stéphane Lévesque.

Summary:

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, Stephane Levesque 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, Levesque 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781442610996 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xii, 221 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2008.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 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.
Subject: Historiography.
History > Methodology.
History > Study and teaching.

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