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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Loewen, James W. (1942-....)
Titre(s) : Teaching what really happened [Texte imprimé] : how to avoid the tyranny of textbooks and get students excited about doing history / James W. Loewen
Édition : Second ed.
Publication : New York (N. Y.) : Teachers College Press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-272 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : Multicultural education series
Lien à la collection : Multicultural education series
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
Sujet(s) : Histoire -- Étude et enseignement -- États-Unis -- 1990-2020
Indice(s) Dewey :
300.7 (23e éd.) = Sciences sociales - Enseignement et recherche
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780807759486 (br.). - ISBN 0807759481 (erroné). - ISBN 9780807777312 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468478879
Notice n° :
FRBNF46847887
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : history as weapon ; A lesson from Mississippi ; A lesson from Vermont
; Why history is important to students ; Why history is important to society ; 1.
The tyranny of coverage: ; Forests, trees, and twigs ; Winnowing trees ; Deep thinking
; Relevance to the present ; Skills ; Getting the principal on board ; Coping with
reasons to teach "as usual" ; You are not alone ; Brining students along ; 2. Expecting
excellence: ; Student characteristics affect teacher expectations ; "Standardized"
tests affect teacher expectations ; Statistical processes cause cultural bias in
"standardized" tests ; Internalizing expectations ; Teachers can create their own
expectations ; 3. Historiography: ; A tale of two eras ; The civil rights movement,
cognitive dissonance, and historiography ; Studying bad history ; Other ways to
teach historiography ; 4. Doing history: ; Doing history to critique history ;
Writing a paper ; Bringing families in ; Local history ; Getting started ; Final
product ; Using the product ; 5. Truth: ; Background of the problem ; Separating
matters of fact from matters of opinion ; Five tests to assess credibility ; 6.
How and when do people get here? ; A crash course on archeological issues ; Presentism
; Today's religions and yesterday's history ; Conclusions about presentism ; Chronological
ethnocentrism ; Primitive to civilized ; Costs of chronological ethnocentrism ;
7. Why did Europe win? ; The important questions ; Looking around the world ; Explaining
civilization ; Making the Earth round ; Why did Columbus win? ; The Columbian exchange
; Ideological results of Europe's victory ; Cultural diffusion and syncretism continue
; 8. The
