Teaching world history as mystery / Jack Zevin, David Gerwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zevin, Jack.

Contributor:

Gerwin, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Study and teaching.

History.

History--Study and teaching--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offering a philosophy, methodology, and examples for history instruction that are active, imaginative, and provocative, this text presents a fully developed pedagogy based on problem-solving methods that promote reasoning and judgment and restore a sense of imagination and participation to classroom learning. It is designed to draw readers into the detective process that characterizes the work of professional historians and social scientists ? sharing raw data, defining terms, building interpretations, and testing competing theories. An inquiry framework drives both the pedagogy and the cho

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; World History in Poetry; one: Teaching World History as Mystery; two: Looking at World History Anew; three: Stones that Speak: Of Megaliths and Monoliths; four: Rome Lasts!: A Mystery of Durability and Power; five: Mythlabeled?: Or, Creating the Crusades; six: The Possibilities for Pizza: A Search for Origins; seven: Incas and Spaniards; eight: Secrets of Secret Societies; nine: Where are the Women in World History?; ten: Finding Mysteries Everywhere: Sources, Resources, and Outright Fabrications; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-14746-9

0-203-85605-8

9780203856055

OCLC:

697642180