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In Search of America's Past: Learning to Read History in Elementary School »
Authors: Bruce Van Sledright, Larry Cuban
ISBN-13: 9780807741931, ISBN-10: 0807741930
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Date Published: March 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Bruce Van Sledright
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| 1 | W(h)ither History Education? | 1 |
| 2 | Conducting Historical Investigations with Fifth-Graders | 24 |
| 3 | History as an Interpretive Act: The Problem of Indeterminate Evidence Trails | 36 |
| 4 | The Wiles of Evidence, Interpretation, and Reinscription: Investigating British Colonies in America | 53 |
| 5 | Source Perspective, Reliability, and Subtext: Investigating Causes of the American Revolution | 78 |
| 6 | Acquiring Procedures and a Discourse for Investigating the Past | 105 |
| 7 | W(h)ither History Education Revisited | 138 |
| App. A | Research Method | 157 |
| App. B | Documents and Images Used in the Two Performance Tasks | 166 |
| App. C | Documents Used for In-Class Investigation of the Jamestown Starving Time | 173 |
| References | 179 | |
| Index | 185 | |
| About the Author | 189 |
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