"Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?": Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12
- ISBN-10
- 1571108122
- ISBN-13
- 9781571108128
- Category
- Electronic books
- Pages
- 230
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stenhouse Pub
- Author
- Bruce A. Lesh
Description
Every major measure of students' historical understanding since 1917 has demonstrated that students do not retain, understand, or enjoy their school experiences with history. Bruce Lesh believes that this is due to the way we teach history -- lecture and memorization. Over the last fifteen years, Bruce has refined a method of teaching history that mirrors the process used by historians, where students are taught to ask questions of evidence and develop historical explanations. --from publisher description.
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