Historical interpretation is a primary responsibility of the historian in addition to discovery of the factual past. Using historiographical study as one aspect of historical study, a teacher provides a vehicle for understanding and gaining experience in the use of the reflective process. (JB)

Describes a multi-media, open-ended approach to high school social studies that is relevant to any historical period. (AN)

History is one of the most difficult subjects to teach because it rarely fascinates the student. (Editor)

During the post war years the League of Nations Union Movement in Britain worked through the schools and converted pro-league sentiment into specific government policies. The history classroom was the focal point of the L.N.U.'s educational effort so that new generations would grow up ready to support enlightened foreign policies and the work of…

Objectivity should be an aim of all historical study despite the difficulty in attaining it. By measuring events, documents, or personalities against the standards of the era in which they occurred, students move one step closer to objectivity. Study of time perspective is a social studies skill. (Author/VW)

The subject of history is becoming increasingly irrelevant to contemporary man. Drastic changes in teaching methods, in course design, and in administrators' attitudes chould change the course history, as a subject, seems doomed to follow. (JB)

Student understanding and motivation are increased if history is taught from the present to the past with an emphasis on current affairs and their effect on the student

The legitimacy and authority of historical inquiry is upheld at a time when romantics, revisionists, and hedonists, all opposed to the status quo, have seized center stage and labeled the discipline irrelevant." (Author/MRB)

The Northampton County Area Community Colleges (Pennsylvania) have developed one approach to the problem of maintaining student-teacher contact and budget levels, while providing learning opportunities for increasing numbers of students. Class meetings and individual cassette-tape instruction are combined with pre-specified behavioral objectives…

The authors prepared a 4th grade history of the Southwest in step with the current Chicano movement. They discuss the outcomes and their concerns in teaching about the history and present day Chicano movement. Eight books are listed for a resource laboratory for teachers on the Chicano." (VW)