Teaching History in Higher Education - Ethics, Aims, Methods

"What are the challenges of teaching history? How can history instructors engage an increasingly diverse student body? And how can we help to make the teaching of history more meaningful? Edward Ross Dickinson offers a new approach to the discipline, and demonstrates the benefits that studying history can bring"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. What Is History Like?; 2. What Do Historians Do?; 3. What Kinds of Stories Do Historians Tell?; 4. What Kinds of Problems Do Historians Solve?; 5. What does History Teach Us?; 6. Principles and Guidelines for Teaching History; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Edward Ross Dickinson is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and an historian of modern Europe and the world. He is author of The World in the Long Twentieth Century (2018), Dancing in the Blood: Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War (Cambridge, 2017), and Sex Freedom and Power in Imperial Germany (Cambridge, 2014).

Summary

What are the challenges of teaching history? How can history instructors engage an increasingly diverse student body? And how can we help to make the teaching of history more meaningful? Edward Ross Dickinson offers a new approach to the discipline, and demonstrates the benefits that studying history can bring.

Foreword

Examines the unique challenges of teaching history, and offers a new and more coherent approach to the discipline.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Ross Dickinson, Edward Ross (University of California Dickinson, Dickinson Edward Ross
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009519915
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0951991-5
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History of Ideas, History: theory & methods, HISTORY / Historiography, Educational strategies & policy, Educational strategies and policy, History: theory and methods