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Competition and Counterfactuals without Confusion: Year 10 Play a Game about the Fall of the Tsarist Empire to Improve Their Causal Reasoning
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Worth, Paula – Teaching History, 2012
Paula Worth was searching not only for a rigorous question, capable of engendering genuine debate, but also for an engaging and enjoyable activity that would secure GCSE students' substantive knowledge. The answer--or rather the question--lay in counterfactual thinking: a carefully crafted game that she devised, based on the structure of a game by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Educational Games, Competition
History Wars and the Classroom: Global Perspectives. Studies in the History of Education
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Taylor, Tony, Ed.; Guyver, Robert, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
The book is entitled History Wars in the Classroom: Global Perspectives and examines how ten separate countries have experienced debates and disputes over the contested nature of the subject, for example the "Black Armband" and "Whitewash" factions in Australia who adopt opposingly celebratory or denigratory views of Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Modern History, Textbooks, Racial Segregation
First Textbooks on Modern History.
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Gribov, V. S. – Russian Education and Society, 1999
Reviews two textbooks for seventh-grade students on modern history discussing the strengths and deficiencies of each: (1) "Modern History. Part I: A Textbook for the Seventh Grade of the Basic School" and (2) "Modern History, 1500-1800: A Textbook for the Seventh Grade of General Education Institutions." (CMK)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, History Instruction
Charting Russia's Future in the Post-Soviet Era. Choices for the 21st Century. Alternatives for Public Debate and Policy Development.
Brown Univ., Providence, RI. Center for Foreign Policy Development. – 1994
This unit is part of a continuing series on current foreign policy issues. This unit draws students into a debate on Russia's identity. Unlike previous units of this series, this one is not written from the U.S. perspective. Rather, students are asked to see the world through Russian eyes and to contemplate Russian choices in the areas of economic…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Economic Development, European History, Foreign Countries