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History Lessons - Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms (Hardcover)
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History Lessons - Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms (Hardcover)
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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 their classroom decisions. "History Lessons: Teaching,
Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms" is a major
contribution to the emerging body of empirical research in the
field of social studies education, chiefly in the subject area of
history, which asks how U.S. students make sense of history and how
teachers construct their classroom practices.
Three case study chapters are paired with three essay review
chapters intended to help readers analyze the cases by looking at
them in the context of the current research literature. Two
concluding chapters extend the cases and analyses: the first looks
at how and why the teachers profiled in this book construct their
individual teaching practices, in terms of three distinct but
interacting sets of influences--personal, organizational, and
policy factors; the second explores the prospects for promoting
what the author defines as ambitious teaching and learning. Many
policymakers assume that standards-based reforms support the
efforts of ambitious teachers, but until we better understand how
they and the students in their classes think and act, that
assumption is hollow at best.
This book is a must have for faculty and students in the field of
social studies education, and broadly relevant across the fields of
curriculum studies and educational policy.
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