National history standards : the problem of the canon and the future of teaching history

• Other Authors: Symcox, Linda (Editor), Wilschut, Arie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2009.
• Series: International review of history education.
• Subjects: History > Study and teaching.; Curriculum planning.; Education > Standards.; Education > Curricula.; Curriculum planning and development.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806618682
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-60752-192-1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 318 pages) : illustrations

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 citizensh...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements / Linda Symcox and Arie Wilschut
• Series Introduction: International review of history education, volume 5 / Rosalyn Ashby, Stuart Foster and Peter Lee
• Chapter 1. Introduction / Linda Symcox and Arie Wilschut
• Section I. New curricula in a post-national world
• Chapter 2. The evaporated canon and the overvalued source: History education in Belgium: An historical perspective / Kaat Wils
• Chapter 3. Internationalizing the U.S. History curriculum: From nationalism to cosmopolitanism / Linda Symcox
• Chapter 4. The two world histories / Ross E. Dunn
• Section II. The persistence of traditional curricula
• Chapter 5. Yearning for yesterday: Efforts of history professionals in Europe at designing meaningful and effective school history curricula / Joke van der Leeuw-Roord
• Chapter 6. Containing and regulating knowledge: Some thoughts on standards and canonization as a response to the complex demands of a globalizing world / Hanna Schissler
• Section III. The educational debate over how to teach history
• Chapter 7. Canonical standards or orientational frames of reference? The cultural and the educational approach to the debate about standards in history teaching / Arie Wilschut
• Chapter 8. Drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful: How adolescents make sense of history / Denis Shemilt
• Chapter 9. Two out of five did not know that Henry VIII had six wives: History education, historical literacy, and historical consciousness / Peter Lee and Jonathan Howson
• Section IV. The debate over how students learn history
• Chapter 10. The denial of desire: How to make history education meaningless / Keith Barton
• Chapter 11. Competence in historical thinking, mastering of a historical framework, or knowledge of the historical canon / Bodo von Borries
• Chapter 12. Closing comments / Wijnand M. Mijnhardt
• About the authors.