Teaching and learning history 11-18: understanding the past: understanding the Past 11-18

by Chris Husbands, Alison Kitson, Susan Steward

Teaching and Learning History offers a fresh and distinctive view on the teaching of history in schools at a time when the value of learning about the past is often questioned. Drawing together ideas from research, classroom practice and the voices of learners themselves, it sets out an imaginative and wide-ranging rationale for a view of history as an essential component in the learning of all young people. The book is organized around four underlying

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Tom Li · Rating 5 out of 5]

this put my own history education into perspective as an a level student who is starting a history degree this autumn. helpful introduction to the fundamentals of teaching history which is what i want to do later in life. favourite sections included the chapter on historical purpose created by a sense of enquiry as well as the chapter about how history should be made to be engaging to all students.