Thinking Historically: Educating Students in the Twenty-First Century

Stephane Levesque

ISBN 10: 0802092594 / ISBN 13: 9780802092595

Published by University of Toronto Press March 2008, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thinking Historically: Educating Students in the Twenty-First Century
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press March 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802092594
• ISBN 13: 9780802092595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
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Synopsis

Two simple but profound questions have preoccupied scholars since the establishment of history education over a century ago: what is historical thinking, and how do educators go about teaching it? In Thinking Historically, Stéphane Ltévesque examines these questions, focusing on what it means to think critically about the past. As students engage in a new century already characterized by global instability, uncertainty, and rivalry over claims about the past, present, and future, this study revisits enduring questions and aims to offer new and relevant answers.

Drawing on a rich collection of personal, national, and international studies in history education, Ltévesque offers a coherent and innovative way of looking at how historical expertise in the domain intersects with the 'pedagogy of history education.' Thinking Historically provides teacher educators, and all those working in the field of history education, ways of rethinking their practice by presenting some of the benchmarks, in terms of procedural concepts, of what students ought to learn and do to become more critical historical actors and citizens.

As questions regarding history education compel educators with greater force than ever, this study explores different ways of approaching and engaging with the discipline in the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Stéphane Lévesque is an associate professor of History Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa.