Teaching U.S. History as Mystery
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-99227-5
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1st August 2010 (Available for Pre-order)
- Pages: 224
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About the Book
Teaching U.S. History as Mystery, 2nd Edition offers a clear set of principles and methods teachers can use to promote and sustain problem-finding and problem-solving in history, along with case studies and documentary examples for test runs in their own classrooms. Designed to engage students in grades 7-12 in investigating history as a mysterious and provocative subject, this methodology builds a new attitude toward the study of history, presenting it as hands-on involvement, subject to interpretation, uncertain in many respects, and inviting new viewpoints and meanings. The point is to create a user-friendly introduction to teaching history 'as it really is' -- with all its issues, problems, unknowns, and clashes of values -- as a means for making students active participants in learning rather than passive 'sponges' or memory banks. The text promotes a teaching style that leads to student engagement with history by offering a balanced combination of historical content, interestingly arranged, and instructional strategies, clearly explained.
New in the Second Edition:
- New introductory chapter combining the introduction, chapter one, and the first portion of chapter two in the first edition and including new text that describes the scope of the mysteries presented in the book,
- New material in Chapter 2, Learning from History: A Lesson of the Vietnam War, on the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, the debate among and between two military historians over the lessons of the Vietnam War, analogies between Vietnam and Iraq, and some material from the Iraq war.
- Three entirely new chapters:
- "Viewpoint and Corroboration in Teaching History" (on the Civil War); "Moundbuilders" (in prehistoric America); "Causes as Mysteries, Origins of Slavery in the Chesapeake." Conclusion (with significant revisions and new material)
Table of Contents
Preface
1. An introduction to teaching US History as Mystery with some thoughts on postmodernism. 2. Learning from History: A Lesson of the Vietnam War.
3. Viewpoint and Corroboration in Teaching History is the chapter with Civil War and a bit of Custer
4. Moundbuilders.
5. Truer Than True, Women in the Old West
6. Solved Mysteries
7. Beyond the Bare Facts
8. Causes as Mysteries, Origins of Slavery in the Chesapeake
9. Conclusion
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