Understanding And Teaching Contemporary Us History Since Reagan

Author : Kimber Quinney,Amy L. Sayward
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299339500

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Understanding and Teaching Contemporary US History Since Reagan by Kimber Quinney,Amy L. Sayward Pdf

Understanding and Teaching Contemporary US History since Reagan is designed for teachers looking for new perspectives on teaching the recent past, the period of US history often given the least attention in classrooms. Less of a traditional textbook than a pedagogical Swiss Army knife, the volume offers a diversity of voices and approaches to teaching a field that, by its very nature, invites vigorous debate and puts generational differences in stark relief. Older history is likely to feel removed from the lived experiences of both teachers and students, allowing for a certain dispassion of perspective. By contrast, contemporary history creates unique challenges, as individual teachers and students may think they know "what really happened" by virtue of their personal experiences. The volume addresses a wide swath of topics, from social movements around identity and representation to the Supreme Court, law enforcement, migration, climate change, and international relations. Emphasizing critical thinking and primary-source analysis, it will aid teachers in creating an invigorating and democratizing classroom experience. Intended for use in both secondary and postsecondary classrooms, the book's structure allows for a variety of applications and invites a broad audience.

Author : Karen J. Johnson,Jonathan M. Yeager
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299346300

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Understanding and Teaching Religion in US History by Karen J. Johnson,Jonathan M. Yeager Pdf

Religion is deeply embedded in American history, and one cannot understand American history's broad dynamics without accounting for it. Without detailing the history of religions, teachers cannot properly explain key themes in US survey courses, such as politics, social dynamics, immigration and colonization, gender, race, or class. From early Native American beliefs and practices, to European explorations of the New World, to the most recent presidential elections, religion has been a significant feature of the American story. In Understanding and Teaching Religion in US History, a diverse group of eminent historians and history teachers provide a practical tool for teachers looking to improve history instruction at the upper-level secondary and undergraduate level. This book offers a breadth of voices and approaches to teaching this crucial part of US history. Religion can be a delicate topic, especially in public education, and many students and teachers bring strongly held views and identities to their understanding of the past. The editors and contributors aim to help the reader see religion in fresh ways, to present sources and perspectives that may be unfamiliar, and to suggest practical interventions in the classroom that teachers can use immediately.

Author : Rosalie Metro
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807781975

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Teaching U.S. History Thematically by Rosalie Metro Pdf

Get started with an innovative approach to teaching history that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students’ lives, and meets state and national standards (grades 7–12). Now in a second edition, this popular book provides an introductory unit to help teachers build a trustful classroom climate; over 70 primary sources (including a dozen new ones) organized into thematic units structured around an essential question from U.S. history; and a final unit focusing on periodization and chronology. As students analyze carefully excerpted documents, they build an understanding of how diverse historical figures have approached key issues. At the same time, students learn to participate in civic debates and develop their own views on what it means to be a 21st-century American. Each unit connects to current events with dynamic classroom activities that make history come alive. In addition to the documents, this teaching manual provides strategies to assess student learning; mini-lectures designed to introduce documents; activities to help students process, display, and integrate their learning; guidance to help teachers create their own units, and more. Book Features: Addresses the politicization of history head-on with updated material that allows students entry points into the debates swirling around their education.Makes document-based teaching easy with a curated collection of primary sources (speeches by presidents and protesters, Supreme Court cases, political cartoons) excerpted into manageable chunks for students. Challenges the “master narrative” of U.S. history with texts from Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Malcolm X, César Chavez, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and Judy Heumann. Offers printable copies of the documents included in the book, which can be downloaded at tcpress.com.

Author : Timothy J Reagan,Terry A Osborn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792452330

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The Art and Science of Teaching by Timothy J Reagan,Terry A Osborn Pdf

Author : Diana B. Turk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : United States
ISBN : 0415954703

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Teaching U.S. History by Diana B. Turk Pdf

Teaching U.S. History is a must read for any aspiring or current teacher who wants to think critically about how to teach U.S. history and make historical discussions come alive in our schools' classrooms.

Author : Diana B. Turk,Laura J. Dull,Robert Cohen,Michael R. Stoll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136638350

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Teaching Recent Global History by Diana B. Turk,Laura J. Dull,Robert Cohen,Michael R. Stoll Pdf

Teaching Recent Global History explores innovative ways to teach world history, beginning with the early 20th century. The authors’ unique approach unites historians, social studies teachers, and educational curriculum specialists to offer historically rich, pedagogically innovative, and academically rigorous lessons that help students connect with and deeply understand key events and trends in recent global history. Highlighting the best scholarship for each major continent, the text explores the ways that this scholarship can be adapted by teachers in the classroom in order to engage and inspire students. Each of the eight main chapters highlights a particularly important event or theme, which is then complemented by a detailed discussion of a particular methodological approach. Key features include: • An overarching narrative that helps readers address historical arguments; • Relevant primary documents or artifacts, plus a discussion of a particular historical method well-suited to teaching about them; • Lesson plans suitable for both middle and secondary level classrooms; • Document-based questions and short bibliographies for further research on the topic. This invaluable book is ideal for any aspiring or current teacher who wants to think critically about how to teach world history and make historical discussions come alive for students.

Author : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199771103

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The Oxford Companion to United States History by Paul S. Boyer Pdf

Here is a volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays. With over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, it illuminates not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion. Here are the familiar political heroes, from George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, to Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But here, too, are scientists, writers, radicals, sports figures, and religious leaders, with incisive portraits of such varied individuals as Thomas Edison and Eli Whitney, Babe Ruth and Muhammed Ali, Black Elk and Crazy Horse, Margaret Fuller, Emma Goldman, and Marian Anderson, even Al Capone and Jesse James. The Companion illuminates events that have shaped the nation (the Great Awakening, Bunker Hill, Wounded Knee, the Vietnam War); major Supreme Court decisions (Marbury v. Madison, Roe v. Wade); landmark legislation (the Fugitive Slave Law, the Pure Food and Drug Act); social movements (Suffrage, Civil Rights); influential books (The Jungle, Uncle Tom's Cabin); ideologies (conservatism, liberalism, Social Darwinism); even natural disasters and iconic sites (the Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, Niagara Falls, the Lincoln Memorial). Here too is the nation's social and cultural history, from Films, Football, and the 4-H Club, to Immigration, Courtship and Dating, Marriage and Divorce, and Death and Dying. Extensive multi-part entries cover such key topics as the Civil War, Indian History and Culture, Slavery, and the Federal Government. A new volume for a new century, The Oxford Companion to United States History covers everything from Jamestown and the Puritans to the Human Genome Project and the Internet--from Columbus to Clinton. Written in clear, graceful prose for researchers, browsers, and general readers alike, this is the volume that addresses the totality of the American experience, its triumphs and heroes as well as its tragedies and darker moments.

Author : Linda E. Martin,Sherry Kragler,Diana J. Quatroche,Kathryn L. Bauserman
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781462524976

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Handbook of Professional Development in Education by Linda E. Martin,Sherry Kragler,Diana J. Quatroche,Kathryn L. Bauserman Pdf

This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the best current knowledge on teacher professional development (PD) and addresses practical issues in implementation. Leading authorities describe innovative practices that are being used in schools, emphasizing the value of PD that is instructive, reflective, active, collaborative, and substantive. Strategies for creating, measuring, and sustaining successful programs are presented. The book explores the relationship of PD to adult learning theory, school leadership, district and state policy, the growth of professional learning communities, and the Common Core State Standards. Each chapter concludes with thought-provoking discussion questions. The appendix provides eight illuminating case studies of PD initiatives in diverse schools.

Author : Julie Buckner Armstrong
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415932572

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Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement by Julie Buckner Armstrong Pdf

The past fifteen years have seen renewed interest in the civil rights movement. Television documentaries, films and books have brought the struggles into our homes and classrooms once again. New evidence in older criminal cases demands that the judicial system reconsider the accuracy of investigations and legal decisions. Racial profiling, affirmative action, voting districting, and school voucher programs keep civil rights on the front burner in the political arena. In light of this, there are very few resources for teaching the civil rights at the university level. This timely and invaluable book fills this gap. This book offers perspectives on presenting the movement in different classroom contexts; strategies to make the movement come alive for students; and issues highlighting topics that students will find appealing. Including sample syllabi and detailed descriptions from courses that prove effective, this work will be useful for all instructors, both college and upper level high school, for courses in history, education, race, sociology, literature and political science.

Author : Laura Hilton,Avinoam Patt
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299328603

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Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust by Laura Hilton,Avinoam Patt Pdf

Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable suffering. Yet it has also been used to teach tolerance, empathy, resistance, and hope. Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust provides a starting point for teachers in many disciplines to illuminate this crucial event in world history for students. Using a vast array of source materials—from literature and film to survivor testimonies and interviews—the contributors demonstrate how to guide students through these sensitive and painful subjects within their specific historical and social contexts. Each chapter provides pedagogical case studies for teaching content such as antisemitism, resistance and rescue, and the postwar lives of displaced persons. It will transform how students learn about the Holocaust and the circumstances surrounding it.

Author : Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299321901

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Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement by Hasan Kwame Jeffries Pdf

Author : Rachel G. Ragland,Kelly A. Woestman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415988810

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The Teaching American History Project by Rachel G. Ragland,Kelly A. Woestman Pdf

The premise of the Teaching American History (TAH) project - a discretionary grant program funded under the U.S. Department of Education's Elementary and Secondary Education Act- is that in order to teach history better, teachers need to know more history. Illustrating the diversity of these programs, this collection of essays and research reports from TAH participants provides models for historians, teachers, teacher educators, and others interested in the teaching and learning of American history, and presents examples of lessons learned from a cross-section of TAH projects.--[book cover]

Author : Carl J. Guarneri,Jim Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317459026

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Teaching American History in a Global Context by Carl J. Guarneri,Jim Davis Pdf

This comprehensive resource is an invaluable teaching aid for adding a global dimension to students' understanding of American history. It includes a wide range of materials from scholarly articles and reports to original syllabi and ready-to-use lesson plans to guide teachers in enlarging the frame of introductory American history courses to an international view.The contributors include well-known American history scholars as well as gifted classroom teachers, and the book's emphasis on immigration, race, and gender points to ways for teachers to integrate international and multicultural education, America in the World, and the World in America in their courses. The book also includes a 'Views from Abroad' section that examines problems and strategies for teaching American history to foreign audiences or recent immigrants. A comprehensive, annotated guide directs teachers to additional print and online resources.

Author : Keith C. Barton,Linda S. Levstik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0805839313

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Teaching History for the Common Good by Keith C. Barton,Linda S. Levstik Pdf

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.

Author : Brian L. Fife
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313398100

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Old School Still Matters by Brian L. Fife Pdf

Can public schools in America be saved? This book considers theory, current practice, and the common school ideal through a historical lens to arrive at practical suggestions for reforming contemporary public education. Despite dramatic, sweeping changes in recent decades, a strong case can be made for guiding the reformation of contemporary public education in the United States on common school ideology of the nineteenth century. The author argues that the common school remains a public institution capable of preparing America's youth to contribute to the community in a positive manner, and that education must be treated at a public good where all children—regardless of social class—have a right to a quality education. The work includes a thorough overview of Horace Mann's writings on K–12 public education that support the common school ideal—concepts that are over 150 years old, yet still highly relevant today.