Thinking Historically: Educating Students in the Twenty-first Century: Educating Students for the 21st Century - Hardcover

Levesque, Stephane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802092594 ISBN 13: 9780802092595

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2008

Synopsis

Two simple but profound questions have preoccupied scholars since the establishment of history education over a century ago: what is historical thinking, and how do educators go about teaching it? In Thinking Historically, Stephane Ltevesque examines these questions, focusing on what it means to think critically about the past. As students engage in a new century already characterized by global instability, uncertainty, and rivalry over claims about the past, present, and future, this study revisits enduring questions and aims to offer new and relevant answers. Drawing on a rich collection of personal, national, and international studies in history education, Ltevesque offers a coherent and innovative way of looking at how historical expertise in the domain intersects with the 'pedagogy of history education.' Thinking Historically provides teacher educators, and all those working in the field of history education, ways of rethinking their practice by presenting some of the benchmarks, in terms of procedural concepts, of what students ought to learn and do to become more critical historical actors and citizens. As questions regarding history education compel educators with greater force than ever, this study explores different ways of approaching and engaging with the discipline in the twenty-first century.

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About the Author

Stéphane Lévesque is professor and director of the Virtual History and Stories Lab at the University of Ottawa.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802092594
• ISBN 13: 9780802092595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240