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In Search of America's Past: Learning to Read History in Elementary School

Name: In Search of America's Past: Learning to Read History in Elementary School
ISBN: 9780807741931

Bruce VanSledright

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Bruce VanSledright shows how young students can benefit from an investigative, inquiry-based approach to the study of history, as called for by the national standards. Addressing important questions about the teaching and learning of history in today's diverse classrooms, this volume:

Conveys the results of an innovative teacher-research project, using engaging stories of VanSledright's classroom experiences.
Provides examples and guidelines, developed from the author's own fifth-grade classroom, for teaching novices to engage in historical investigations (in contrast to memorizing details in a textbook).
Offers strong evidence that children do have the intellectual capacity to judge the validity, reliability, and perspective of historical documents and images.
Wrestles with a number of issues facing history teachers who wish to embark on ambitious projects with their students that can take them against the grain of policy mandates (such as recall-based, high-stakes testing).

ISBN: 9780807741931
Pub Date: 12th April 2002
Publisher: Teachers' College Press
Imprint: Teachers' College Press
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 208

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