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Frederic Krome – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
Science fiction literature and film are an underappreciated source for the teaching of history. Finding material that can excite a student's curiosity can be a key towards greater student engagement, especially among students who are taking history as a requirement, rather than from interest. The discovery that they can read or watch science…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Science Fiction
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Zajda, Joseph – Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, 2022
This book focuses on discourses of the politics of history education and history textbooks. It offers a new insight into understanding of the nexus between ideology, the state, and nation-building, as depicted in history education and school textbooks. It especially focuses on the interpretation of social and political change, significant events,…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Politics of Education, History Instruction, Textbooks
Brehm, Will, Ed.; Kitamura, Yuto, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
This edited collection explores the possibilities, perils, and politics of constructing a regional identity. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a multinational institution comprised of 10 member states, is dedicated to building a Southeast Asian regional identity that includes countries along Southeast Asia's Mekong River delta:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Regional Characteristics, International Cooperation
Mark Newman – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
The methods of teaching history in grades 6-12 have changed over the last few years to be more interactive and collaborative. More and more, teaching and learning revolves around an essential triad of inquiry, primary sources, and literacy in a collaborative classroom environment. "Teaching History Today" is about placing inquiry,…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Chapman, Arthur, Ed. – UCL Press, 2021
The 'knowledge turn' in curriculum studies has drawn attention to the central role that knowledge of the disciplines plays in education, and to the need for new thinking about how we understand knowledge and knowledge-building. "Knowing History in Schools" explores these issues in the context of teaching and learning history through a…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Epistemology, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Design
King, LaGarrett J., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
This volume collects the work of historians, researchers, and classroom teachers to define what it means to be a racially literate educator and citizen. History classes should be spaces in which all students learn about their predecessors' legacies as a context for understanding and decision-making in contemporary society. In reality, the…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Racism, Literacy, History Instruction
Lesh, Bruce A. – Teachers College Press, 2023
This practical book addresses the consistent questions that were posed by secondary social studies teachers during professional learning sessions. In particular, it examines ways to break through the inclination and perception expressed by many teachers that "my kids cannot do that." Drawing on 22 years as a high school history teacher,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, History Instruction, Social Studies, Inquiry
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Escribano-Miralles, Aino; Miralles-Martínez, Pedro; Serrano-Pastor, Francisca-José – IGI Global, 2022
Coverage of heritage and archeology in formal education is typically limited. These subjects are typically taught through specific and anecdotal activities that do not respond to a specific methodological foundation. School-museum relationships offer numerous benefits for design participation experiences with long-term perspectives in conducting…
Descriptors: Museums, Partnerships in Education, Teaching Methods, Social Sciences
Fullmer, Lauren M.; Bond, Laura F.; Molyneaux, Crystal N.; Nayman, Samuel J.; Elias, Maurice J. – ASCD, 2022
We often hear that a key purpose of schooling is to prepare students for informed and active citizenship. But what does this look like in practice? How do teachers pursue this goal amid other pressing priorities, including student mastery of both academic content and social-emotional competencies? "Students Taking Action Together," based…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Citizen Participation, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education
Cutrara, Samantha – University of British Columbia Press, 2020
We are all our history. Yet in Canadian classrooms, students are often left questioning how they can study a past that does not reflect their present. Despite curricular revisions, the mainstream narrative that shapes the way we teach students about the Canadian nation can be divisive, separating "us" from "them." Responding to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Educational Change, Student Centered Learning
Delgado, Ander, Ed.; Mycock, Andrew, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2023
The heightened resonance of identity-driven politics in many states across twenty first century Europe emphasizes the critical role of history in shaping public contestation of the idea of the nation, and accordant manifestations of nationalism and national identity. How the past is interpreted or what and how is remembered has proven increasingly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, European History, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Metro, Rosalie – Teachers College Press, 2023
Get started with an innovative approach to teaching history that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students' lives, and meets state and national standards (grades 7-12). Now in a second edition, this popular book provides an introductory unit to help teachers build a trustful classroom climate; over 70…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Literacy
Joseph Zajda; John Whitehouse – Springer, 2024
This book uses historiography and discourse analysis to provide a new insight into understanding the nexus between ideologies, the state, and nation-building--as depicted in history school textbooks. It focuses on the interpretation of social and political change, significant events, and examining possible new biases and omissions in school…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Nationalism, Global Approach, Historiography
Gudgel, Mark – Teachers College Press, 2021
Approaching the Holocaust in your classroom can be a difficult, often daunting task. This practical guide for English and social studies teachers features lessons learned from the author's 17 years of experience teaching the subject in public schools, as well as his work with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Using anecdotes and…
Descriptors: Jews, War, Homicide, European History
Lemberg, Jennifer, Ed.; Pope, Alexander, IV, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2021
Today's teachers seek to address the Holocaust not just as history, but also in relation to current events. Featuring stories from middle school, high school, and university classrooms across the United States, this collection offers a comprehensive argument for the inclusion of purposeful Holocaust pedagogy rooted in literacy practices and…
Descriptors: World History, History Instruction, Current Events, Middle Schools
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