In clear, concise language, this book deals with fundamental issues that must be addressed if teachers are to construct coherent and powerful history curricula,

This text presents a major advance in developing a knowledge base about children's historical learning and thinking. It questions the purposes and goals that di

Offers alternatives to conventional textbook learning for history students, describing the use of in-depth historical projects and investigations that result in

A rethinking of teaching methodology in history classrooms As issues of history and memory collide in our society and in the classroom, the time is ripe to reth

This work embodies the most thorough treatment yet made in this country of the subject indicated by the title. The book opens with what history is, the problem