Debates in history teaching
Debates in history teaching
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历史教学中的争论
DOI:
10.1080/19415257.2012.717735
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
E. Brown
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作者:
E. Brown
Professor Ian Davies has edited a further collection in the Routledge ‘Debates in Subject Teaching’series, offering a ‘combination of expert opinion and fresh insight’and situated in a broad quasi-textbook market as,‘the ideal companion for any student or practising teacher in initial training, continuing professional development and Masters level study’. The book contains a wide range of contributions from a diverse set of authors, many of whom continue to practise their craft in schools and colleges across the United Kingdom. Davies professes that:‘the purpose of the book is to highlight issues which are important in history education and which trainee and experienced teachers will have to address throughout their career’(p. 1). The book is neatly divided into four sections covering: debates in history education; procedural concepts and history; the expression and purpose of history; and the teaching and learning of history. In total, 22 chapters offer a series of valuable perspectives on important issues in the field at a time when the humanities have a reinvigorated profile within the UK Secretary of State for Education’s English Baccalaureate. Section One establishes the context of trends and themes in history teaching since the beginning of the twentieth century, providing a useful reminder of both the impact of globalisation on the shift away from the teaching of British history and the ‘flowering of curriculum, innovation’and the advent of ‘new history’(frameworks) in the 1970s. Practitioners will also be pleased to see issues arising from the different role of history in the primary, secondary and post-16 sectors differentiated in three well-written chapters. Section Two moves into more theoretical territory with a series of thoughtful discussions of key historical concepts such as causality, significance, evidence and continuity. Here there is particularly significant discussion of the relationship between the ‘generic’pedagogical tools of a teacher and the specific metaphorical armoury of the subject teacher, or, to use a culinary analogy, between the saucepan and the mezzaluna. A series of colleagues from the Institute of Education contemplate the model of pedagogical content knowledge initially proposed by Lee Shulman and its relevance as a means of generating a,‘teacher centred pedagogy which centres primarily on the skills and knowledge that the teacher possesses, rather than on the ways teachers interact with pupils’(p. 85). In a policy climate that has returned to focus on teacher’s subject knowledge as a premium ‘product’,