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Huppatz, DJ; Lees-Maffei, Grace – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2013
This article asks: what is the significance of design history within higher education? It reviews the practice and purpose of design history, in the education of historically aware and critically engaged designers, as an emerging independent discipline, and in terms of what the subject has to offer allied fields such as history, sociology,…
Descriptors: Design, History, Intellectual Disciplines, History Instruction
Ellington, Lucien – Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2011
Historians work in a discipline with few inherent concepts and are obliged to draw upon many fields in recreating the past. Yet authors of most school history texts, state and national standards and curriculum materials seldom incorporate economic analysis in their work. Just look at state standards that include Adam Smith and John Locke but draw…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Economic Research, State Standards
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Holman, Lana; Sucich, John – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2007
A unit of study on Ancient Greece is a part of the fourth grade social studies curriculum at Belmont Day School. The students spend 10 weeks exploring Greek history and mythology. This article discusses a new project that the authors conducted, wherein one of them was going to Greece on a study tour, while the other one stays in Belmont Day…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, History Instruction, Social Studies
Barnard, Henry, Ed. – American Journal of Education, 1860
This textbook is the eighth volume of the bound periodical, "American Journal of Education." This journal was established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. This volume includes No. 20, March 1860 and No. 21, June 1860. Among the topics covered in these issues are: school architecture; teaching…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, History Instruction, Geography Instruction, Natural Sciences