Teaching History with Museums

Teaching History with Museums
Author: Alan S. Marcus
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2012-04-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136487182

Teaching History with Museums provides an introduction and overview of the rich pedagogical power of museums. In this comprehensive textbook, the authors show how museums offer a sophisticated understanding of the past and develop habits of mind in ways that are not easily duplicated in the classroom. Using engaging cases to illustrate accomplished history teaching through museum visits, this text provides pre- and in-service teachers, teacher educators, and museum educators with ideas for successful visits to artifact and display-based museums, historic forts, living history museums, memorials, monuments, and other heritage sites. Each case is constructed to be adapted and tailored in ways that will be applicable to any classroom and encourage students to think deeply about museums as historical accounts and interpretations to be examined, questioned, and discussed.

The Children in Room E4

The Children in Room E4
Author: Susan Eaton
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781565126176

Explores the racial and economic divide found in the educational systems of urban areas across the United States, in an account that follows the struggles of one bright third-grader from Hartford, Connecticut, and his indomitable teacher. Reprint.