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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Schwebel, Sara L.
Titre(s) : Child-sized history [Texte imprimé] : fictions of the past in U.S. classrooms / Sara L. Schwebel
Publication : Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, cop. 2011
Description matérielle : xi, 255 pages ; 24 cm
Comprend : Classroom entry ; Indians mythic and human ; War novels ; Black and white ; Historical
fiction in the classroom ; Afterword: pedagogical possibilities.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-244) and index
For more than three decades, the same children's historical novels have been taught
across the United States. Honored for their literary quality and appreciated for their
alignment with social studies curricula, the books have flourished as schools moved
from whole-language to phonics and from student-centered learning to standardized
testing. These books stimulate children's imagination, transporting them into the
American past and projecting them into an American future. As works of historical
interpretation, however, many are startlingly out of step with current historiography
and social sensibilities, especially with regard to race. Unlike textbooks, which
are replaced on regular cycles and subjected to public tugs-of-war between the left
and right, historical novels have simply--and quietly--endured. Taken individually,
many present troubling interpretations of the American past. But embraced collectively,
this classroom canon provides a rare pedagogical opportunity: it captures a range
of interpretive voices across time and place, a kind of "people's history" far removed
from today's state-sanctioned textbooks. Teachers who employ historical novels in
the classroom can help students recognize and interpret historical narrative as the
product of research, analytical perspective, and the politics of the time. In doing
so, they sensitize students to the ways in which the past is put to moral and ideological
uses in the present. Featuring separate chapters on American Indians, war, and slavery,
this book tracks the changes in how young readers are taught to conceptualize history
and the American nation
Sujet(s) : Roman historique américain -- Étude et enseignement
Littérature et histoire -- Étude et enseignement
Enfants -- Livres et lecture -- Étude et enseignement
Noirs américains -- Étude et enseignement
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780826517937 (pbk. edition) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0826517935
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43491330f
Notice n° :
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