This study argues for the importance of analyzing individual students' responses to writing instruction in crafting histories of the field of rhetoric and composition. I engage in an archival study of student writing at the University of Kansas during the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, specifically through a genre-based local…

The idea of using "little stories" to illuminate the "big pictures" of the past was creatively explored in "Teaching History 107," which offered teachers a wealth of detailed vignettes with which to kindle young people's interest and illuminate major historical events. Paul Barrett builds on the ideas explored in that…

In this study, international recommendations for history education issued by UNESCO and the Council of Europe are compared with the construing of history in national guidelines, teachers' perceptions and the results of students' work in history in Sweden. The study shows how history education from the 1960s onwards could be critical and oriented…

An outline for a fourth grade local history course is presented. A historic study of the local community should focus on social/cultural, political, and economic community roots. An annotated listing of three local history books written specifically for children, which have received accreditation, is provided. (RM)

An undergraduate oral history course is described. (DE)

Examples of how oral history can be used in the secondary classroom are provided.

Slide presentations on California history which use five slide projectors simultaneously are described. (DE)

A historical research course taught at the University of Minnesota which uses local community resources is described. How guidelines are introduced, how students select topics, collect information, and develop research papers, and problems encountered are related in the article. (SM)

A new approach to a survey course in Black history offered at the Ohio State University Lima Regional Campus is described. The project consisted of a cooperative writing of the history of the local Black community. (SM)

Describes a Canadian secondary school communications and history course dealing with the oral and cultural history of the area. Following intensive workshops, students develop ideas, interview, write, photograph, edit, lay out, and publish a commercial quality magazine for sale to the public. (Author/KC)

History as a school subject in Hong Kong is often assumed to have been a vehicle for "colonialist" indoctrination under the British, and for "nationalist" indoctrination under the post-retrocession Chinese regime. This chapter challenges such assumptions by examining the ways in which history syllabuses have (or have not) dealt…

Describes a writing course for undermotivated students which focuses on careful precise observations through the study of other time periods in the history of the town where the school is located. (DD)

The educational aims and objectives of industrial archaeology are defined. Short descriptions of how it is used in English secondary schools are provided. (DE)

Three innovative approaches for teaching California history are described. (DE)

A team-teaching approach to a college-level world history course using a lecture-lab format was very popular with students. One professor taught historical methods, including oral history, quantification, local history, family history, and visual history, in his labs. A detailed course outline is provided. (RM)