History Toolkit for History Skills in the Social Sciences
History Toolkit for History Skills in the Social Sciences

Author: Ruth Naumann

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780170389334

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This revised edition brings full colour and new units on topics such as graphs and maps, diagrams and tables, stats and key Maori history terms. Students with history skills are always in demand by those hiring in the workforce. Employers want people who know how to think and how to prepare, present and evaluate their thinking. The New Zealand Curriculum recognises that all students should have the opportunity to develop such essential skills. Developing these skills forms the background for each of the 65 units in this book. Each unit (listed under Contents) is a guide and practice for understanding, how to, knowing, recognising, and interpreting. Each unit demystifies terminology and introduces or re-introduces students to terms such as evidence, discerning, perspective, and inquiry. Each of the 65 units is a stand-alone unit but all link together to provide a tool kit of essential knowledge and skills for students at any level who will complete their work in the book by owning knowledge about values and issues, using language, managing self and engaging with the local, national and international communities.

The Methods and Skills of History
The Methods and Skills of History

Author: Michael J. Salevouris

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-09-21

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1118745345

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Widely acclaimed for its accessibility and engaging approach to the subject, the fourth edition of The Methods and Skills of History combines theory and instruction with hands-on practice, making it a comprehensive guide to historical research and writing. Combines theory with hands-on practice in its introduction to historical methods Includes a series of field-tested exercises designed to make the research and writing of history more meaningful and accessible to readers Features expanded coverage of writing history and up-to-date coverage of online research Designed to strengthen students’ critical thinking and communication skills

World History through Case Studies
World History through Case Studies

Author: David Eaton

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-09-19

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1350042625

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This innovative textbook demystifies the subject of world history through a diverse range of case studies. Each chapter looks at an event, person, or place commonly included in comprehensive textbooks, from prehistory to the present and from across the globe – from the Kennewick Man to gladiators and modern-day soccer and globalization – and digs deeper, examining why historians disagree on the subject and why their debates remain relevant today. By taking the approach of 'unwrapping the textbook,' David Eaton reveals how historians think, making it clear that the past is not nearly as tidy as most textbooks suggest. Provocative questions like whether ancient Greece was shaped by contact with Egypt provide an entry point into how history professors may sharply disagree on even basic narratives, and how historical interpretations can be influenced by contemporary concerns. By illuminating these historiographical debates, and linking them to key skills required by historians, World History through Case Studies shows how the study of history is relevant to a new generation of students and teachers.

Engaging the Past
Engaging the Past

Author: Eric H. Monkkonen

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780822314400

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Vigorous historical exploration has increased across the social sciences in the past two decades. Originally published as a series of articles in the journal Social Science History, the essays in this volume provide a guide to historical social science by surveying the use of historical data and methodologies in anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, and geography. Each essay in Engaging the Past pays close attention to the unique problems and methods associated with its particular social scientific discipline. By exploring questions raised by both contemporary and more established works within each field, the authors show that some of the best and most innovative research in each of the social sciences includes a strong historical component. Thus, as Eric H. Monkkonen's introduction shows, these essays taken together make it clear that historical research provides a significant key to many of the major issues in the social sciences. Intended for the growing community of both social scientists and historians interested in reading or researching historically informed social science, Engaging the Past suggests future directions that might be taken by this work. Above all, by providing a set of user's guides written by respected social scientists, it encourages future boundary crossings between history and each of the social sciences. Contributors. Andrew Abbott, Richard Dennis, Susan Kellog, Eric H. Monkkonen, David Brian Robertson, Hugh Rockoff

Historical Content V. Historical Skill
Historical Content V. Historical Skill

Author: Benjamin J. Mitchell

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13:

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For nearly a century, Social Studies teachers have debated which methodology best meets the needs of their students: one that emphasizes historical content or historical skill. With the Standards-Based Movement, teachers, professors, and historians alike adopted curriculums that were a combination of the two in order to, for the first time in the history of teaching Social Studies, emphasize what students should be able to do with their analyses of the past. As such, the Standards-Based Movement became the most influential reform in the history of education. For Social Studies teachers, the adoption of the Pennsylvania standards for history has become a landmark achievement in the education profession, as teachers now have access to an invaluable resource that is designed to develop a highly rigorous curriculum where students not only achieve knowing essential content, but understanding how the past has impacted contemporary society, and most importantly, how to apply these skills as conscientious citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Reading Like a Historian
Reading Like a Historian

Author: Sam Wineburg

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2015-04-26

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0807772372

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This practical resource shows you how to apply Sam Wineburgs highly acclaimed approach to teaching, "Reading Like a Historian," in your middle and high school classroom to increase academic literacy and spark students curiosity. Chapters cover key moments in American history, beginning with exploration and colonization and ending with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

My Skills Book: the Social Studies Geography Tool Kit
My Skills Book: the Social Studies Geography Tool Kit

Author: Ruth Naumann

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780170368131

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Equipping students with skills is the best way to give them a head-start into the future. The New Zealand Curriculum recognises that all students should have the opportunity to develop essential skills. The great feature of skills is that they are self-perpetuating. Mastery of one skill leads to confidence in another skill and so on.

History Skills
History Skills

Author: Mary Abbott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-08-18

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1134035594

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Degree-level history is characterized not only by knowledge and understanding of the human past, but by a battery of skills and qualities which are as directly applicable to employment as to professional postgraduate training or academic research. History Skills gives frank and practical help to students throughout their university course with advice on: research methods taking notes participating in class coursework examinations the dissertation. Designed as a guide to success, the book helps to develop the critical skills that students need to get the most out of their course. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to take into account digital resources and the benefits and risks associated with online research. New chapters on the first-year experience and employability help students to adjust to the way history is taught at university and explore the opportunities available to them after graduating. Offering an unrivalled ‘insider’s view’ of what it takes to succeed, History Skills provides the comprehensive toolkit for all history students.