History Lessons: Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms
ISBN: 9780805845020 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, extended case studies of two veteran teachers and their students are combined with the extant research literature to explore current issues of teaching, learning, and testing U.S. history. It is among the first to examine these issues together and in interaction. While the two teachers share several similarities, the teaching practices they construct could not be more different. To explore these differences, the author asks what their teaching practices look like, how their instruction influences their students' understandings of history, and what role statewide exams play in...
In this book, extended case studies of two veteran teachers and their students are combined with the extant research literature to explore current iss...
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701,59 zł |
History Lessons: Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms
ISBN: 9780805845037 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this analysis, extended case studies of two veteran teachers and their students are combined with the extant research literature to explore issues of teaching, learning and testing US history. It examines these issues together and in interaction. While the two teachers share several similarities, the teaching practices they construct could not be more different. To explore these differences, the author asks what their teaching practices look like, how their instruction influences their students' understandings of history, and what role statewide exams play in their classroom decisions.
In this analysis, extended case studies of two veteran teachers and their students are combined with the extant research literature to explore issues ...
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192,23 zł |
Oral History: An Introduction for Students
ISBN: 9780807813447 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A manual addressed to students rather than to teachers or researchers, Oral History: An Introduction for Students is unique among the "how to" books in the field, adapting some of the best methods of group oral history projects to the needs of individual students. Useful in courses devoted entirely to oral history, the book also addresses the wider audience of students who may choose to do oral research in the context of otherwise traditional courses. The emphasis is on humanistic, imagininative, and intellectual challenge for students in integrating oral accounts with written...
A manual addressed to students rather than to teachers or researchers, Oral History: An Introduction for Students is unique among the "how to" ...
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178,44 zł |
Meaning Over Memory: Recasting the Teaching of Culture and History
ISBN: 9780807844854 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the midst of the heated battles swirling around American humanities education, Peter Stearns offers a reconsideration not of what we teach but of why and how we teach it. A humanities program, says Stearns, should teach students not just memorized facts but analytical skills that are vital for a critically informed citizenry. He urges the use of innovative research as the basis of such a curriculum, and he offers specific suggestions on translating curriculum goals into courses that can be taught alongside or instead of the more conventional staples.
In the midst of the heated battles swirling around American humanities education, Peter Stearns offers a reconsideration not of what we teach b...
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301,98 zł |
Breaking Away from the Textbook: More Creative Ways to Teach World History, Volume III
ISBN: 9780810846241 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, thi
Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbo...
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262,58 zł |
Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives
ISBN: 9780814781418 / Angielski / Twarda / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As issues of history and memory collide in our society and in the classroom, the time is ripe to rethink the place of history in our schools. Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History represents a unique effort by an international group of scholars to understand the future of teaching and learning about the past. It will challenge the ways in which historians, teachers, and students think about teaching history. The book concerns itself first and foremost with the question, -How do students develop sophisticated historical understandings and how can teachers best encourage this... As issues of history and memory collide in our society and in the classroom, the time is ripe to rethink the place of history in our schools. Kn... |
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363,79 zł |
Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives
ISBN: 9780814781425 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As issues of history and memory collide in our society and in the classroom, the time is ripe to rethink the place of history in our schools. Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History represents a unique effort by an international group of scholars to understand the future of teaching and learning about the past. It will challenge the ways in which historians, teachers, and students think about teaching history. The book concerns itself first and foremost with the question, -How do students develop sophisticated historical understandings and how can teachers best encourage this... As issues of history and memory collide in our society and in the classroom, the time is ripe to rethink the place of history in our schools. Kn... |
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129,87 zł |
From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park: Activism, Culture, & American Studies
ISBN: 9780822326717 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging collection of essays that demonstrate and reflect on this important and often highly politicized discipline. While American Studies was formerly seen as a wholly subsidiary academic program that loosely combined the study of American history, literature, and art, From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park reveals the evolution of an independent, highly interdisciplinary program with distinctive subjects, methods, and goals that are much different...
Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging col...
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119,48 zł |
Thirty Years of Radical History: The Long March
ISBN: 9780822364931 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This special issue of Radical History Review (RHR) offers not only a self-portrait of the journal but also a retrospective of radical history as a movement, an ideology, and a transformative force in historical scholarship. In an engaging combination of interviews, articles, and round-table discussions, this issue highlights the relentless challenge that radical history has posed to liberal and conservative paradigms.
Recognizing the creative power of pluralism, the RHR editors have marshalled a diverse troop of historical scholars in this issue. In Forum on Radical... This special issue of Radical History Review (RHR) offers not only a self-portrait of the journal but also a retrospective of radical history a...
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57,12 zł |
Capturing Nursing History: A Guide to Historical Methods in Research
ISBN: 9780826115669 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "
Winner of the 2008 AJN Book of the Year Award Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 byChoice This well written and well edited book fills a unique gap.... one of the] precious few books] that focus on science or medicine and one of] even fewer that cover the history of nursing.(Three Stars)--Doody's Book Review Service While there have been many research texts in the nursing literature, and nursing history is both taught in courses and of popular interest to practicing nurses, there has never been a hands-on text that describes the... "
Winner of the 2008 AJN Book of the Year Award Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 byChoice This well written... |
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295,35 zł |
Uncovering Our History: Teaching with Primary Sources
ISBN: 9780838908624 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using primary sources to teach history, which goes beyond rote memorization of dates and facts, has been incorporated into the educational standards of nearly every state. For overburdened K-12 teachers, librarians, and media specialists, complying with those standards is easier said than done. In this useful handbook, expert author Susan Veccia offers readers practical ways to incorporate these standards into their curriculum, using the resources of the Library of Congress's American Memory Website. This national treasure and resource for bringing history alive is home to over 100 digitized...
Using primary sources to teach history, which goes beyond rote memorization of dates and facts, has been incorporated into the educational standards o...
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219,82 zł |
Historical Empathy and Perspective Taking in the Social Studies
ISBN: 9780847698134 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many history students find the peope and events portryed in their textbooks to be wooden, remote and empty. For history to come alive to them, students often seek personal meanings as they use knowledge of context and ponder details.
Many history students find the peope and events portryed in their textbooks to be wooden, remote and empty. For history to come alive to them, student...
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251,64 zł |
Teaching World History: A Resource Book: A Resource Book
ISBN: 9781563244193 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A resource book for teachers of world history at all levels. The text contains individual sections on art, gender, religion, philosophy, literature, trade and technology. Lesson plans, reading and multi-media recommendations and suggestions for classroom activities are also provided.
A resource book for teachers of world history at all levels. The text contains individual sections on art, gender, religion, philosophy, literature, t...
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701,59 zł |
Celebrating the New World: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893
ISBN: 9781566630146 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the turn of the nineteenth century America was coming of age. No event better illustrated the American rise, better mirrored American society, or better presaged the American century ahead than the World's Columbian Exposition. "The grandest exposition this planet has ever witnessed" has been captured by Robert Muccigrosso in this lively survey of the Great Fair and its reflection of American values and tastes. With exhibits and visitors from all parts of the globe, the Columbian Exposition allowed America to consider its past, examine its present, and ponder its future. The nation's most...
By the turn of the nineteenth century America was coming of age. No event better illustrated the American rise, better mirrored American society, or b...
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79,20 zł |
What Shall We Tell the Children? International Perspectives on School History Textbooks (PB)
ISBN: 9781593115098 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pages of this book illustrate that as instruments of socialization and sites of ideological discourse textbooks are powerful artefacts in introducing young people to a specific historical, cultural and socioeconomic order. Crucially, exploring the social construction of school textbooks and the messages they impart provides an important context from within which to critically investigate the dynamics underlying the cultural politics of education and the social movements that form it and which are formed by it. The school curriculum is essentially the knowledge system of a society...
The pages of this book illustrate that as instruments of socialization and sites of ideological discourse textbooks are powerful artefacts in introduc...
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322,46 zł |
For God or Country
ISBN: 9781599263809 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores the relationship between economic development and political evolution during a decisive period of modern Sudanese history. During the first half of the 20th century, Mahdists competed with nationalists in shaping politics and forcing independence from the British in 1956. The nationalists sought independence for reasons of country. The Mahdists sought independence for reasons of God. But economic development was important, too. It fueled the secular nationalist movement, and it influenced the Mahdist movement in diffuse but significant ways. Readers will find this study...
This study explores the relationship between economic development and political evolution during a decisive period of modern Sudanese history. During ...
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91,47 zł |
For God or Country
ISBN: 9781599263816 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores the relationship between economic development and political evolution during a decisive period of modern Sudanese history. During the first half of the 20th century, Mahdists competed with nationalists in shaping politics and forcing independence from the British in 1956. The nationalists sought independence for reasons of country. The Mahdists sought independence for reasons of God. But economic development was important, too. It fueled the secular nationalist movement, and it influenced the Mahdist movement in diffuse but significant ways. Readers will find this study...
This study explores the relationship between economic development and political evolution during a decisive period of modern Sudanese history. During ...
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141,79 zł |
Toward the Visualization of History: The Past as Image
ISBN: 9780739124376 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the impact of visuals on the study of history by examining visual culture and the future of print, providing an analysis of photography, film, television, and computer culture. The author shows how the visualization of history can become a driving social and cultural force for change.
This book discusses the impact of visuals on the study of history by examining visual culture and the future of print, providing an analysis of photog...
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557,99 zł |
The Great Exhibition of 1851
ISBN: 9780719055928 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Great Exhibition of 1851 has become a touchstone for the nineteenth century. The Crystal Palace produced a commodity world, an imperial spectacle, a picture of capitalism, a liberal dream, a vision of modern life. Historians have saturated the Great Exhibition with meanings. This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. It contains a series of critical readings of the official and popular historical record of the Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the...
The Great Exhibition of 1851 has become a touchstone for the nineteenth century. The Crystal Palace produced a commodity world, an imperial spectacle,...
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109,36 zł |
Making History Count: A Primer in Quantitative Methods for Historians
ISBN: 9780521001373 / Angielski / Miękka / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This authoritative guide to the use of quantitative methods is designed to be used as the basic text for graduate courses, and is also suitable for upper-level students. Making History Count is written by two senior economic historians with considerable international teaching experience. The text is clearly illustrated with numerous tables, graphs and diagrams, leading the student through the various key topics. It is supported by five specific historical data-sets, available electronically in downloadable and manipulable form.
This authoritative guide to the use of quantitative methods is designed to be used as the basic text for graduate courses, and is also suitable for up...
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227,81 zł |