History in the Present Tense: Engaging Students through Inquiry and Action

Author:   Maher
Publisher:   Heinemann USA
ISBN:  

9780325005706


Pages:   182
Publication Date:   13 August 2003
Format:   Paperback
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History in the Present Tense: Engaging Students through Inquiry and Action


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In this practical guidebook, Douglas Selwyn and Jan Maher propose a different way of teaching historystart from today and keep asking questions. As students investigate possible answers, they make connections across miles and centuries. Along the way, they experience that essential insight of the social studies: Point of view has everything to do with how one perceives the world. To this end, each chapter explores projects connecting students' concerns with core content and concepts in history, geography, civics, and economics. Lessons center on the economics of ordinary objects, understanding current events in historical context, creating readers theater, photodocumentaries and more. While students dig deeply into issues of personal relevance, they also master the content and skills mandated in state and national standards. Students learn about historyand about themselves.

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Author:   Maher
Publisher:   Heinemann USA
Imprint:   Heinemann Educational Books,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.271kg
ISBN:  

9780325005706


ISBN 10:   0325005702
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   13 August 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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?. . . a unique and imaginative approach to education, taking the student out of the textbook, even out of the classroom, into creative contact with the world outside. Students and teachers will profit immensely from its suggestions.?-Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus, Boston University, Author of A People's History of the United States


-. . . a student-centered, intellectually invigorating, content-open way to engage students in the study of history.--Tarry Lindquist, Author of Seeing the Whole Through Social Studies, Ways That Work, and Social Studies at the Center


. . . a student-centered, intellectually invigorating, content-open way to engage students in the study of history. -Tarry Lindquist, Author of Seeing the Whole Through Social Studies, Ways That Work, and Social Studies at the Center . . . a unique and imaginative approach to education, taking the student out of the textbook, even out of the classroom, into creative contact with the world outside. Students and teachers will profit immensely from its suggestions. -Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus, Boston University, Author of A People's History of the United States . . . smooth, entertaining, witty, and personaljust the right combination of methods, social analysis, and philosophy of history for my secondary certification students. -Susan Starbuck, Professor, Antioch University Seattle, author of Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment


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Jan Maher is a writer and educator whose works include several plays, Heaven, Indiana (a novel), and History in the Present Tense (coauthored with Douglas Selwyn, Heinemann 2003). She is Adjunct Professor of education at Antioch University and Heritage University, both in Seattle. Douglas Selwyn taught in the Seattle Public Schools for more than fifteen years. He is currently a professor of education at Antioch University and works as an educational consultant. His previous publications include Living History in the Classroom (Zephyr, 1993); and an NCSS bulletin, Arts & Humanities in the Social Studies (1995).

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