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Direct linkMichalaki, Alexia – Teaching History, 2021
Frustrated by her students' glib use of catch-all terms such as 'militarism' in addressing causation, Alexia Michalaki wanted her Year 9 students to produce mature causal explanations of World War I. To encourage this to happen she went back into decades of pedagogical writing and research, teasing out the ways in which others have sought to…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Persuasive Discourse, Knowledge Level, History Instruction
Goodwin, Karl A.; Quinlan, Kathleen M. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2021
Engagement with primary sources is a key feature of arts and humanities subjects, particularly classics and ancient history. Recent instructional trends emphasise integrating skills with content, particularly in the first year of higher education. We investigate how successfully first-year university students used a variety of sources in an…
Descriptors: Classical Literature, Primary Sources, Humanities Instruction, College Freshmen
Carroll, James Edward – Teaching History, 2017
Jim Carroll relished the opportunity, in the new A-level specification he was teaching, to find an effective way of teaching his students to analyse interpretations in their coursework essays. Reflecting on the difficulties he had faced as a trainee teacher teaching younger pupils about interpretations, and dissatisfied with examination board…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Educational History, Historical Interpretation, Teaching Methods
Orth, Simon; Lacey, Daniel; Smith, Neil – Teaching History, 2015
On 9 April 1930, a philanthropist called Edward Harkness donated millions of dollars to the Phillips Exeter Academy in the USA. He hoped that his donation could be used to find a new way for students to sit around a table with their teacher and "feel encouraged to speak up". This led to the development of what is now known as the…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Habits
