Teaching Students Why We Learn About the Past.

Singer, Alan

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ERIC Number: EJ335113

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Publication Date: 1986

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Teaching Students Why We Learn About the Past.

Singer, Alan

OAH Magazine of History, v1 n3-4 p5 Win-Spr 1986

Maintains that students must learn to seek the significance of events in history, to ask the question "Why?" in order to draw meaningful conclusions that may be transferred to their own lives. (JDH)

Descriptors: Curriculum Problems, Historiography, History Instruction, Secondary Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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