Why Study History? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Study History? write by Marcus Collins. This book was released on 2020-05-27. Why Study History? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considering studying history at university? Wondering whether a history degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it’s actually like to study history at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know. Studying any subject at degree level is an investment in the future that involves significant cost. Now more than ever, students and their parents need to weigh up the potential benefits of university courses. That’s where the Why Study series comes in. This series of books, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of an academic subject at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. Each book sets out to enthuse the reader about its subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.
Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone)
Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) write by Sam Wineburg. This book was released on 2018-09-17. Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A look at how to teach history in the age of easily accessible—but not always reliable—information. Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percent of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious. With the Internet at our fingertips, what’s a teacher of history to do? In Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), professor Sam Wineburg has the answers, beginning with this: We can’t stick to the same old read-the-chapter-answer-the-question snoozefest. If we want to educate citizens who can separate fact from fake, we have to equip them with new tools. Historical thinking, Wineburg shows, has nothing to do with the ability to memorize facts. Instead, it’s an orientation to the world that cultivates reasoned skepticism and counters our tendency to confirm our biases. Wineburg lays out a mine-filled landscape, but one that with care, attention, and awareness, we can learn to navigate. The future of the past may rest on our screens. But its fate rests in our hands. Praise for Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) “If every K-12 teacher of history and social studies read just three chapters of this book—”Crazy for History,” “Changing History . . . One Classroom at a Time,” and “Why Google Can’t Save Us” —the ensuing transformation of our populace would save our democracy.” —James W. Lowen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Teaching What Really Happened “A sobering and urgent report from the leading expert on how American history is taught in the nation’s schools. . . . A bracing, edifying, and vital book.” —Jill Lepore, New Yorker staff writer and author of These Truths “Wineburg is a true innovator who has thought more deeply about the relevance of history to the Internet—and vice versa—than any other scholar I know. Anyone interested in the uses and abuses of history today has a duty to read this book.” —Niall Ferguson, senior fellow, Hoover Institution, and author of The Ascent of Money and Civilization
Reading Like a Historian
Reading Like a Historian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Like a Historian write by Sam Wineburg. This book was released on 2015-04-26. Reading Like a Historian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This practical resource shows you how to apply Sam Wineburgs highly acclaimed approach to teaching, "Reading Like a Historian," in your middle and high school classroom to increase academic literacy and spark students curiosity. Chapters cover key moments in American history, beginning with exploration and colonization and ending with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts write by Samuel S. Wineburg. This book was released on 2001. Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether he is comparing how students and historians interpret documentary evidence or analyzing children's drawings, Wineburg's essays offer rough maps of how ordinary people think about the past and use it to understand the present. These essays acknowledge the role of collective memory in filtering what we learn in school and shaping our historical thinking.
Trade and Taboo
Trade and Taboo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trade and Taboo write by Sarah Bond. This book was released on 2016-10-25. Trade and Taboo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Applies new methodological approaches to the study of ancient history
