Engaging the Past: Action and Interaction in the History Classroom (Teaching History Today and in the Future) - Softcover

George, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 147587006X ISBN 13: 9781475870060

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024

Synopsis

Engaging the Past: Action and Interaction in the History Classroom provides practical steps toward using engaging strategies in the classroom to teach students to think historically. These strategies include an approach developed by the author called “The You Decide! Lecture,” and innovative ways to use board games and role-playing games in the history classroom. The goal is not simply to add window dressing to fundamentally dull lessons, but rather to re-examine how teachers think about students as learners of history. This book follows the growing trend within historical pedagogy to care less about content coverage and more about deep engagement, student learning, and the importance of historical thinking. The students in our classrooms today are the history teachers of tomorrow and awakening them to the exciting complexities of the past is critical to keep the study of history thriving.

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth George is associate professor of History at Taylor University, where she also oversees the Social Studies Education major. She has published and presented on using games, role-playing, and other active learning strategies in history and social studies classrooms.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147587006X
• ISBN 13: 9781475870060
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146