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Newman, Laura – History of Education, 2023
There are multiple vantage points from which historians have observed the ways in which both diseased and healthy bodies (as well as their constituent parts) have served as tools of knowledge generation, instruction and coercion in the hands of medical practitioners. From spaces of formal, specialist education such as the medical school to more…
Descriptors: Historians, Teaching Methods, Educational History, Health Education
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Carroll, James Edward – Teaching History, 2017
Jim Carroll was concerned that A-level textbooks failed to provide his students with a model of the multi-voicedness that characterises written history. In order to show his students that historians constantly engage in argument as they write, Carroll turned to academic scholarship for models of multi-voiced history. Carroll explains here how he…
Descriptors: Essays, Oral Language, History Instruction, Teaching Methods
Mickey, Diane J. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this intrinsic, collective case study was to learn what skilled practitioners do to engage elementary students in the disciplinary literacy of reading like historians. Four high-implementation cases were selected to learn what is "possible" rather than what is "typical" behavior when teaching elementary students…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Intellectual Disciplines
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Glas, Eduard – Science & Education, 2013
Using history of mathematics for studying concepts, methods, problems and other internal features of the discipline may give rise to a certain tension between descriptive adequacy and educational demands. Other than historians, educators are concerned with mathematics as a "normatively defined" discipline. Teaching cannot but be based on a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Intellectual Disciplines, Mathematics Education, Historians
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Barksdale, Scott T. – History Teacher, 2013
Teachers can engage students in historical thinking by intentionally structuring close reading tasks. This article provides a practical and theoretical examination of the learning and teaching during a 30-minute social studies class in which students studied colonization by reading a primary source text from the Jamestown Colony. Students used…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Intellectual Disciplines, Differences, Content Area Reading
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Achugar, Mariana; Carpenter, Brian D. – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2012
This paper reports on a design experiment (Brown, 1992) where we explored how providing a linguistic support for understanding historical documents affected students comprehension of historical documents and their disciplinary literacy. The functional approach to disciplinary literacy parallels historians' reading practices while supporting…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Reading Comprehension, Metalinguistics, Multilingualism
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Mansilla, Veronica Boix; Gardner, Howard – Educational Leadership, 2008
Most students in most schools today study subject matter. They and their teachers conceive of the educational task as committing to memory large numbers of facts, formulas, and figures. A far more sophisticated perspective emphasizes teaching disciplines and disciplinary thinking. The goal of this approach is to instill in students the disposition…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Role of Education, Thinking Skills, Comprehension
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Lancaster, Jane – Journal of American History, 1994
Asserts that intended audience size for academic historians and other historians is a major barrier between the two groups. Concludes that cooperation between precollege teachers and historians is necessary and that teachers should have more voice in curriculum development. (CFR)
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Citizenship Education, Course Content, Curriculum Development