NATIONAL HISTORY STANDARDS by Linda Symcox (Editor), Arie Wilschut (Editor), Peter Lee ( 9781593116682 )

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Title:

NATIONAL HISTORY STANDARDS
THE PROBLEM OF THE CANON AND THE FUTURE OF HISTORY TEACHING

By:

Linda Symcox (Editor), Arie Wilschut (Editor), Peter Lee

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1593116683

ISBN 13:

9781593116682

Publisher:

INFORMATION AGE PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

15 March, 2007

Series:

International Review of History Education

Pages:

332

Description:

Policy-makers and opinion leaders often confuse the pedagogical desirability of using a 'framework' for studying history with their own efforts to reaffirm the centrality of national identity rooted in a vision of their nation's history as a way of inculcating citizenship and patriotism. This title discusses these issues.

Synopsis:

A volume in International Review of History Education Series Editor Peter Lee, Rosalyn Ashby, Stuart Foster As educators in the United States and Europe develop national history standards for K-12 students, the question of what to do with national history canons is a subject of growing concern. Should national canons still be the foundation for the teaching of history? Do national canons develop citizenship or should they be modified to accommodate the new realities of globalization? Or should they even be discarded outright? These questions become blurred by the debates over preserving national heritages, by so-called 'history wars' or 'culture wars,' and by debates over which pedagogical frameworks to use. These canon and pedagogical debates often overlap, creating even more confusion. A misconceived "skills vs. content" debate often results. Teaching students to think chronologically and historically is not the same as teaching a national heritage or a cosmopolitan outlook. But what exactly is the difference?Policy-makers and opinion leaders often confuse the pedagogical desirability of using a 'framework' for studying history with their own efforts to reaffirm the centrality of national identity rooted in a vision of their nation's history as a way of inculcating citizenship and patriotism. These are the issues discussed in this volume." Today's students are citizens of the world and must be taught to think in global, supranational terms. At the same time, the traditionalists have a point when they argue that the ideal of the nation-state is the cultural glue that has traditionally held society together, and that social cohesion depends on creating and inculcating a common national culture in the schools. From an educational perspective, the problem is how to teach chronological thinking at all. How are we to reconcile the social, political and intellectual realities of a globalizing world with the continuing need for individuals to function locally as citizens of a nation-state, who share a common past, a common culture, and a common political destiny? Is it a duty of history education to create a frame of reference, and if so, what kind of frame of reference should this be?How does frame-of-reference knowledge relate to canonical knowledge and the body of knowledge of history as a whole?

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1, black & white illustrations

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Information Age Publishing

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