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Textbooks and Teaching: Recent Discussions in the Journal of American History
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| | AP Central is pleased to make available the "Textbooks and Teaching" discussions from the March 2002 issue of the Journal of American History. The summary below is adapted from the introduction by editors Gary Kornblith and Carol Lasser.
2002: Thinking Outside the Box
The writers in this discussion focus on efforts to expand the teaching of college-level history courses beyond traditional classroom formats and boundaries. K-12 social studies classes have long included excursions to local museums and historical sites to help make history "come alive" for younger students. What is happening at colleges and universities to deepen students' appreciation of, and connection to, the past? What are the best practices and modes of teaching history that move teachers "outside the box"?
The twelve reports presented here demonstrate the astonishing vitality and range of contemporary innovative teaching. The reports describe service learning, community-oriented public history projects, collaborative research seminars, and traveling classrooms that educate head and heart. Topics examined include the use of material culture and electronic resources in history courses and the destabilization of classroom authority that historians confront when they move away from traditional formats. Contributors include Catherine Badura, Amy Bass, Charles Bright, A. Glenn Crothers, John J. Grabowski, Cecilia Aros Hunter and Leslie Gene Hunter, Alyssa Picard and Joseph J. Gonzalez, David A. Reichard, Kathryn Kish Sklar, John Wertheimer, James P. Whittenburg, and Michael Zuckerman.
Read the Textbooks and Teaching reports...
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