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Can I read Teaching History for the Common Good on EtoBox?
Teaching History for the Common Good by Keith C. Barton; Linda S. Levstik is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Teaching History for the Common Good about?
In Teaching History for the Common Good, Barton and Levstik present a clear overview of competing ideas among educators, historians, politicians, and the public about the nature and purpose of teaching history, and they evaluate these debates in light of current research on students'historical thinking. In many cases, disagreements about what should be taught to the nation's children and how it should be presented reflect fundamental differences that will not easily be resolved. A central premise of this book, though, is that systematic theory and research can play an important role in such debates by providing evidence of how students think, how their ideas interact with the information they encounter both in school and out, and how these ideas differ across contexts. Such evidence is needed as an alternative to the untested assumptions that plague so many discussions of history education. The authors review research on students'historical thinking and set it in the theoretical context of mediated action--an approach that calls attention to the concrete actions that people undertake, the human agents responsible for such actions, the cultural tools that aid and constrain them, the
Who reads Teaching History for the Common Good?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Keith C. Barton; Linda S. Levstik
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786613859020
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education, Mathematics, History
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-24