Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Critical Perspectives on the Past)
by:
Sam Wineburg (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781566398565 (1566398568)
Publish date: May 11th 2001
Publisher: Temple University Press
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
The subtitle of this award-winning volume of essays, promises to chart the future of teaching the past. Wineburg’s main point, that the “historical thinking” and close, critical reading practiced by professional historians are very different from the ways students in other fields (and high school s...