What Is History Teaching? / Edition 1

by Husbands

Overview

This book draws together developments in a wide range of fields: in academic history, in the study of language and in classroom research on pupil learning, as the basis for a distinctive approach to the teaching and learning of history in school. Chris Husbands analyses four approaches to learning about the past through looking at evidence, through the language of the past, through story and through the imagination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335196388
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc.
Publication date:	08/01/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Chris Husbands is Reader in Educational Studies at the University of Warwick. He has taught history in comprehensive schools in England and was Senior Lecturer in History Education at the University of East Anglia. He has written extensively on the teaching and learning of history.

Table of Contents

Introduction learning and the past Constructing the past evidence and questions Constructing the past language and change Constructing the past stories and narratives Facts, fictions and imagination Words and the past the place of talk Organizing ideas the place of writing Making judgments So, what /f003is/f001 history?
Bibliography Index.

Chris Husbands is Reader in Educational Studies at the University of Warwick. He has taught history in comprehensive schools in England and was Senior Lecturer in History Education at the University of East Anglia. He has written extensively on the teaching and learning of history.

Editorial Reviews

Explores how pupils make sense of the past, and the relationship between how historians construct interpretations of the past and how pupils learn history in schools. Husbands (education, U. of Warwick, England) draws on his own teaching experience as well as the field's literature to analyze four approaches to learning history: looking at evidence, the language of the past, story, and imagination. He also considers how classroom talk, writing, and assessment can encourage a sophisticated understanding of the past. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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