Bruce VanSledright shows how young students can benefit from an investigative, inquiry-based approach to the study of history, as called for by the national standards. Addressing important questions about the teaching and learning of history in today's diverse classrooms, this volume conveys the results of an innovative teacher-research project using engaging stories of VanSledright's classroom experiences, provides examples and guidelines for teaching novices to engage in historical investigations (in contrast to memorizing details in a textbook), offers strong evidence that children do have the intellectual capacity to judge the validity, reliability, and perspective of historical documents and images, and wrestles with a number of issues facing history teachers who wish to embark on ambitious projects with their students that can take them against the grain of policy mandates (such as recall-based, high-stakes testing).
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Teachers' College Press
ISBN-13
9780807741924
eBay Product ID (ePID)
105743095
Product Key Features
Author
Bruce Vansledright
Publication Name
In Search of America's Past: Learning to Read History in Elementary School
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Bruce Vansledright
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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