Developing your approach to teaching history

Title: Developing your approach to teaching history
Creator: Parkes, Robert
Relation: Historical thinking for history teachers: a new approach to engaging students and developing historical consciousness p. 72-88
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003115977
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2019
Description: This chapter discusses various approaches to history teaching. It outlines some of the enduring debates over what, and how, history should be taught. A good place to start to understand the different approaches one might take to history teaching is to consider the recurring debates in the field. Walk into any history staffroom across the country, and you will hear the dilemma of how much content there is to cover. The well-rehearsed dichotomy of skills versus content that arose during the reforms has its legacy in debates over approaches to history teaching today. The celebratory reconstructionist shares with their students the story of the past as it is depicted in dominant discourses, either of the society in which they are teaching or the own social group. As a newly qualified history teacher, you will have to determine where you stand on a range of issues associated with the teaching and learning of history.
Subject: teaching; study; learning; history
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1449439
Identifier: uon:43662
Identifier: ISBN:9781760295516
Language: eng

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