[PDF] The Course Of Study In History eBook

Author : Frederick Rudolph
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 1993-03-17
Category : Education
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Curriculum is an indispensable book.. Written with impressive scholarship, distinction of thought, and uncommon wit. ?Change Rudolph uses his dual skills of scholar and communicative writer to present a finely documented work. Without a doubt, it stands forth as the standard. ?Choice

Author : Samuel S. Wineburg
Publisher : Critical Perspectives on the P
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781566398565

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Whether he is comparing how students and historians interpret documentary evidence or analyzing children's drawings, Wineburg's essays offer rough maps of how ordinary people think about the past and use it to understand the present. These essays acknowledge the role of collective memory in filtering what we learn in school and shaping our historical thinking.

Author : Marcus Collins
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1913019055

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Considering studying history at university? Wondering whether a history degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it’s actually like to study history at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know. Studying any subject at degree level is an investment in the future that involves significant cost. Now more than ever, students and their parents need to weigh up the potential benefits of university courses. That’s where the Why Study series comes in. This series of books, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of an academic subject at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. Each book sets out to enthuse the reader about its subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.

Author : Archibald B. Anderson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2017-12-07
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ISBN : 9780260558190

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Excerpt from A Course of Study in History and Handbook to the State Series Advanced d104 There is a growing tendency in the field of education toward a more rigid examination of the subjects which make up the course of study. This is rightly so, especially in the case of the course of study for the grammar school, because it touches vitally the welfare of a larger number of pupils than any other part of our school system. Thousands of dollars of public money, the energy of thousands of school children, not to mention the expense incumbent on parents in keeping children in school, are invested in each and every subject composing the course of study for the grammar school. This is certainly a good and sufficient reason for subjecting each of the subjects which compose the course of study to the closest examination, in order to see whether or not the subject merits the place it holds, to see whether or not it yields a dividend on the investment. It is very evident why we teach reading and writing in the schools. The goals of these subjects are very apparent. We want children to be able to read and write. These goals are certainly desirable, and experience has proven that they are attainable. But what of history and its goals? What have we tried to do with history as a school subject? What have been the results? Some of the goals we have assigned to history are: the giving of information, the general training and development of the mind, the train ing of memory, imagination, observation, and judgment, the development of character, patriotism, and good citizenship. These are all desirable goals, but what does experience show as regards the actual output.2 Simply this, that only one of these goals is attainable through the teaching of history in the schools as they are, and that is the giving of information. Experience shows clearly that there is one thing we can guarantee to do with history, to give the pupil that knowledge of the nation's past life which the race knows and uses. These other goals, which are most desirable, but which experience shows to be unattainable, are the products of the old-time doctrine of formal discipline, which held that general faculties were developed and trained by the study of certain subjects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Emily J. Rice
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780526923496

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Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 1967-01-15
Category : History
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We have set down in this book the basic rules and principles of historical study that a student should bear in mind as he enters upon his first college history course. In our experience as college teachers of history, we have found that students need to be informed on the nature and methods of history as a distinct intellectual discipline, and we have tried to communicate this information in as direct and practical a way as possible. We have no only set before the college student the standards of excellence one should strive to attain in historical study; we have attempted to show, step by step, how to reach these goals. We have presented the methods and principles that appear to have the widest consensus among academic historians, and we have sought to avoid extreme and idiosyncratic opinions.

Author : Colin Gordon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0812291506

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Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form." Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy—and often sheer folly—of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history. Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps—rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records—illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.