Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past

Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past
ISBN-10
156639855X
ISBN-13
9781566398558
Category
Education
Pages
255
Language
English
Published
2001
Author
Samuel S. Wineburg

Description

Demolishes the conventional notion that there is one true history and one best way to teach it. Although most of us think of history and learn it as a conglomeration of facts, for professional historians it is a way of knowing, a method for developing anunderstanding about the relationships of peoples and events in the past.

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