How students understand the past : from theory to practice
M. Elaine Davis presents a useful text that demonstrates the importance of contemporary learning theory and educational research to the development of effective programs in both formal and informal history and archaeology education. Chapters cover teaching and history education theory, and apply this to various case studies and program examples. A valuable tool for school teachers, museum educators, archaeologists, and historians
1 online resource (x, 189 pages)
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Print version:
PART I: Teaching and learning history
History matters
Thinking our way into the past
PART II: Constructing the past: a case study from Southwestern Colorado
A sense of place
The research design and project parameters: teachers, students, and curriculum
Pieces of the past
Making meaning of the past
PART III: Teaching a history that matters
Constructing pedagogy: applying research to practice
History as a dialogic practice: sharing authority for constructing the past
Understanding understanding: some tools for qualitative inquiry
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010