Critical Thinking & Writing in History
Critical Thinking & Writing in History

Author: Matthew Garrett

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-18

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781393289890

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Critical Thinking & Writing in History is a guide through the historical method. This work explores the very definition of history and offers explanatory text in locating sources, source analysis, argumentation and reasoning, looking for subtext, causation, contextualization, generalization, historical empathy, and writing history. Critical Thinking & Writing in History is ideal for college freshmen seeking to improve their historical thinking. Readers will learn the answers to such questions as: What is the nature of history? What sources do historians use and where do they find them? How do historians analyze sources? How do historians interpret subtext? How do historians structure arguments? What are common mistakes in reasoning? What is causation and how do historians prove it? How do historians contextualize arguments and events? What circumstances are necessary to create a generalization? What is the role of moral judgement in studying the past? How do historians write? Written with student needs in mind, this text offers clear short arguments and explanations, bolded key terms, original images, and endnotes for further reading. Critical Thinking & Writing in History is an ideal primer for historical thinking.

The Student Guide to Historical Thinking
The Student Guide to Historical Thinking

Author: Linda Elder

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 1538133946

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Learning history as only a collection of dates and names prevents us from seeing the true value of the past. The Student Guide to Historical Thinkingreveals the study of history as a mode of thinking with real current-day implications. It begins with a focus on important historical understandings and then presents strategies for fostering fair-minded historical thinking. Students learn to engage with the past in a way that promotes critical thinking about the present and future. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fair-minded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.

The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts
The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts

Author: Peter Seixas

Publisher:

Published: 2012-07-30

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780176541545

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Authors Peter Seixas and Tom Morton provide a guide to bring powerful understandings of these six historical thinking concepts into the classroom through teaching strategies and model activities. Table of Contents Historical Significance Evidence Continuity and Change Cause and Consequence Historical Perspectives The Ethical Dimension The accompanying DVD-ROM includes: Modifiable Blackline Masters All graphics, photographs, and illustrations from the text Additional teaching support Order Information: All International Based Customers (School, University and Consumer): All US based customers please contact [email protected] All International customers (exception US and Asia) please contact Nelson.international@ne lson.com

Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts

Author: Samuel S. Wineburg

Publisher: Critical Perspectives on the P

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 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.

Writing at the End of the World
Writing at the End of the World

Author: Richard E. Miller

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2005-10-23

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0822972840

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What do the humanities have to offer in the twenty-first century? Are there compelling reasons to go on teaching the literate arts when the schools themselves have become battlefields? Does it make sense to go on writing when the world itself is overrun with books that no one reads? In these simultaneously personal and erudite reflections on the future of higher education, Richard E. Miller moves from the headlines to the classroom, focusing in on how teachers and students alike confront the existential challenge of making life meaningful. In meditating on the violent events that now dominate our daily lives—school shootings, suicide bombings, terrorist attacks, contemporary warfare—Miller prompts a reconsideration of the role that institutions of higher education play in shaping our daily experiences, and asks us to reimagine the humanities as centrally important to the maintenance of a compassionate, secular society. By concentrating on those moments when individuals and institutions meet and violence results, Writing at the End of the World provides the framework that students and teachers require to engage in the work of building a better future.