Jack Zevin

Suspicious History (eBook, PDF)

Questioning the Basis of Historical Evidence

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Suspicious aims at providing teachers and students of history and related social sciences with ideas for critical thinking about past and present applied to documentation, images, and historical writing. Issues of perspective, bias, storytelling, patriotism and heroism, as well as interpretation are distributed among different chapters, along with guidance for making discussion provocative and involving, in light of principles for rethinking history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765180907
• Artikelnr.: 74843824

Autorenporträt

Jack Zevin is a lifelong student and teacher of history and the social sciences with an expertise in social studies education. He is an advocate for interactive and critical thinking methods of thinking about history in the Socratic tradition of questioning everything.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Suspicious
Chapter 2: Facts
Chapter 3: Bias
Chapter 4: Story
Chapter 5: Lenses
Chapter 6: Pedestal
About the Author