Teaching [and] Historical Understanding: Disciplining Historical Imagination with Historical Context.

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Title: Teaching [and] Historical Understanding: Disciplining Historical Imagination with Historical Context.
Language: English
Authors: Graff, Harvey J.
Source: Interchange. 1999 30(2):143-169.
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 27
Publication Date: 1999
Document Type: Journal Articles
Opinion Papers
Descriptors: Context Effect, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, History Instruction, Social Sciences
ISSN: 0826-4805
Abstract: Suggests that history is a distinctive discipline that is distinct as a form of inquiry and mode of understanding, exploring contemporary currents and discussing history's distinguishing characteristics (historical context and its discipline of historical imagination and historical understanding). The discussion highlights research and teaching, examining selected needs for and uses of teaching and understanding history for social science and society. (SM)
Entry Date: 2000
Accession Number: EJ598222
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:Suggests that history is a distinctive discipline that is distinct as a form of inquiry and mode of understanding, exploring contemporary currents and discussing history's distinguishing characteristics (historical context and its discipline of historical imagination and historical understanding). The discussion highlights research and teaching, examining selected needs for and uses of teaching and understanding history for social science and society. (SM)
ISSN:0826-4805