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Robert L. Hampel – Schools: Studies in Education, 2024
Daniel J. Boorstin was a distinguished historian at the University of Chicago from 1944 to 1969; later he served as librarian of Congress. A prolific author throughout his 89 years, Boorstin saved several unpublished manuscripts. His cogent observations on college lectures are resurrected here. For Boorstin, the widespread definition of great…
Descriptors: Barriers, Progressive Education, Authors, College Faculty
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Carroll, James Edward – Teaching History, 2022
Alarmed by his students' random use of causal language in their essays, James Edward Carroll resolved to help his students improve their understanding of causal processes. Carroll decided to introduce his students to the metaphors that historians use to describe causation in the historiography of the Salem witch trials. By modelling how historians…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, History Instruction
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Alridge, Derrick P.; Randolph, Adah Ward; Johnson, Alexis M. – History of Education Quarterly, 2023
This article provides a historiographical survey of significant African American historians researching, writing, and interpreting Black people's education history. At the heart of this article are the following questions: Who were the African American historians of education who produced this work? What has been the significant scholarship of…
Descriptors: African American History, Educational History, Historians, African American Education
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Thomas Walsh; Tom O’Donoghue – History of Education Quarterly, 2025
For decades, transnational knowledge circulation in relation to schooling in Ireland has been a neglected area of study among historians. This paper provides new insights through a transnational lens on primary, secondary, and vocational curriculum developments in the first decade following the advent of national independence in the country in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Policy, Catholics
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Franz Giuseppe F. Cortez – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
This paper revisits the main thoughts of the Filipino historian and social critic Renato Constantino on the role of education in the formation of a neocolonial and postcolonial consciousness. It suggests that Constantino's critical stance towards education embodies a type of philosophizing about education that centers on the problematization of…
Descriptors: Historians, Educational History, Role of Education, Postcolonialism
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Miles, James; Gibson, Lindsay – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2022
Since the early 2000s, the use of the term presentism has rapidly increased in both the historical discipline and public discussions of history. Most recently, presentism has been widely discussed and debated in articles about the pulling down and defacement of statues in countries around the world inspired by the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Historians, Definitions
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Eden, Jason – History Teacher, 2022
History departments at many colleges and universities offer upper-level courses that focus upon the craft of the discipline. These stand-alone methods classes often lack the specific time period and geographic region that typically anchor history curriculum. Although most graduate programs in history provide in-depth exposure to historical theory,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Historiography, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
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Head, Samuel – Teaching History, 2020
Students of A-level history are required to analyse and evaluate historical interpretations. Samuel Head found limitations in his Year 13 students' understanding of how and why historians arrive at differing interpretations, which impeded their ability to analyse them. He set about tackling this with carefully sequenced planning and a processual…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Historical Interpretation, Curriculum Development, Misconceptions
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Hiscox, Holly – Teaching History, 2021
Holly Hiscox was concerned that many of her A-level students -- asked to evaluate three different historical interpretations for their non-examined assessment task -- still tended to hold unhelpful misconceptions about the nature of interpretations. In this article she explains how she created an introductory scheme of work to help them understand…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, High School Students, Historical Interpretation
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Kautz, Matthew B.; Blanco, M. Yianella – History Teacher, 2022
In this article, the authors trace their writing instruction through the 2016-2018 school years. They begin by describing how they framed the foundations of historical work and the importance of this framing for the later production of historical narratives. Then, the authors discuss how they integrated traditional literacy instruction with…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Historians, Writing Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Fishback, Price; Haupert, Michael – Journal of Economic Education, 2022
Teaching economic history requires the study of how to combine the economists' modeling and statistical methods with the methods used by historians and the other social sciences. It often involves learning how to search for quantitative data from a variety of sources and then building panel datasets that match the data found with existing…
Descriptors: Economics, History, History Instruction, Economics Education
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Patel, Dhwani – Teaching History, 2021
Much has been written in recent years about how historical scholarship can be used to shape practice in the classroom. As an historian of the medieval period now working as an history teacher, Dhwani Patel offers a fresh perspective on these debates. During her PGCE year, Patel found herself reflecting on how the lenses and methodologies that…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Interdisciplinary Approach, History Instruction, Secondary School Students
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Foster, Rachel; Goudie, Kath – Teaching History, 2019
Reflecting on challenges that had surfaced in their own and others' efforts to get pupils to write historical narratives, Rachel Foster and Kath Goudie went back to the drawing board to consider the disciplinary purposes of narrative. They used both historical scholarship and theoretical works by historians on narrative construction. Their…
Descriptors: European History, History Instruction, Foreign Countries, Grade 8
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Hibbert, David; Patel, Zaiba – Teaching History, 2019
David Hibbert and Zaiba Patel decided to work together after becoming concerned that school history curricula might not enable students to interrogate popular British mythologising about World War II. Building on these pre-existing concerns, their collaboration with the historian Yasmin Khan yielded an Interpretations enquiry which asked students…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, History Instruction, War, Historians
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Carroll, James Edward – Teaching History, 2018
Puzzled by the shrugs and unimaginative responses of his students when asked certain counterfactual questions, James Edward Carroll set out to explore what types of counterfactual questions would elicit sophisticated causal explanations. During his pursuit of the 'gold standard' of counterfactual reasoning, Carroll drew upon theories of academic…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Social Bias, Social Attitudes, United States History
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