What Is History Teaching?: Language, Ideas and Meaning in Learning About the Past

Chris Husbands

ISBN 10: 0335196381 / ISBN 13: 9780335196388

Published by Open University Press 01/08/1996, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Is History Teaching?: Language, Ideas and Meaning in Learning About the Past
• Publisher: Open University Press 01/08/1996
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335196381
• ISBN 13: 9780335196388
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

* How do pupils make sense of the past? * What is the relationship between the way historians construct interpretations of the past and the way pupils learn history in schools? This book draws together developments in a wide range of fields: in academic history, in the study of language and in classroom research on pupil learning, as the basis for a distinctive approach to the teaching and learning of history in school. Chris Husbands analyses four approaches to learning about the past: through looking at evidence, through the language of the past, through story and through the imagination. He emphasises the ways in which pupils and historians structure their own interpretations of history and considers the implications for teachers by examining the ways in which classroom talk, writing and assessment can support the development of sophisticated understandings of the past.

About the Author

Chris Husbands is Reader in Educational Studies at the University of Warwick. He has taught history in comprehensive schools in England and was Senior Lecturer in History Education at the University of East Anglia. He has written extensively on the teaching and learning of history.