1st Edition
Collaboration and the Future of Education Preserving the Right to Think and Teach Historically
1. Introduction. Part I: The Current Landscape of History Education. 2. History Alive! is History Dead: Problems with Textbook-driven Instruction. 3. The Teaching American History Project: Teachers’ Assessments of Its Classroom Connection. 4. Crossing the Educational Rubicon: Collaboration as a Model for Change. Part II: The Argument for Creating the Space to Think and Teach Historically. 5. Developing a Craft Approach to Teaching History: What We Can Learn from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History’s National History Teachers of the Year. 6. A Collaborative Model for Assessing Teachers: Why We Need It. Part III: Collaborating to Create Authentic Historical Thinking and Learning. 7. Historiography in High School Classrooms: A Review of the Literature. 8. Lifting the Veil: Teachers and Historiography. 9. Students and Historiography: How Collaboration Improves Learning. 10. Collaboration and Pre-Service Teachers: Using Historiography as Pedagogy. 11. Alternative Education: Historiography and Historical Thinking in the Non-Traditional Classroom
Biography
Gordon P. Andrews is Associate Professor of History at Grand Valley State University, USA.
Wilson J. Warren is Professor of History at Western Michigan University, USA.
James P. Cousins is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Master Faculty Specialist at Western Michigan University, USA.
