Understanding History Teaching: Teaching and Learning About the Past in Secondary Schools Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Understanding History Teaching: Teaching and Learning About the Past in Secondary Schools Book

Presents an account of the way history is taught in schools. Drawing on fieldwork in comprehensive schools and on research studies worldwide this text poses fundamental questions about the way teachers teach and learners learn. It also considers the purposes in teaching about the past in a world of accelerating change.Read More

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    Why do we teach and learn about the past? How is history taught in schools? What are the influences on the way teachers teach and pupils learn about the past? History...

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    * Why do we teach and learn about the past?
    * How is history taught in schools?
    * What are the influences on the way teachers teach and pupils learn about the past?

    History is one of the most ideologically disputed of school subjects. Over the past generation, the subject has experienced fundamental changes in content, pedagogy and approach. This book is the first detailed account of the way history is taught in schools to be published for 30 years. Drawing on fieldwork in comprehensive schools, and on research studies worldwide, the authors pose fundamental questions about the way teachers teach and learners learn. They consider its purposes on teaching about the past in a world of accelerating change. The book sets out to explore the realities of classroom history teaching and to offer pointers for the development on the subject in a new century.

  • 0335212727
  • 9780335212729
  • Chris Husbands, Alison Kitson, Anna Pendry
  • 1 September 2003
  • Open University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 176
  • illustrated edition
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