HISTORY IN SECONDARY EDUCATION: HISTORICAL TIME, CAUSALITY AND SOURCES

John Dewey on History Education and the Historical Method

Th is essay constructs a comprehensive view of Dewey’s approach to history, the historical method, and history education. Drawing on Dewey’s approach to the subject at the University of Chicago Laboratory School (1896-1904), Dewey’s chapter on the historical method in Logic: A Th eory of Inquiry (1938), and a critique of Dewey’s philosophy of history that appeared in the American Historical Rev...

National Humiliation, History Education, and the Politics of Historical Memory: Patriotic Education Campaign in China

This manuscript explores the state’s political use of the past and the function of history education in political transition and foreign relations. Modern historical consciousness in China is largely characterized by the ‘‘one hundred years of humiliation’’ from mid-1800s to mid1900s when China was attacked, bullied, and torn asunder by imperialists. This research focuses initially on how such ...

Causality in Social Studies Education

Causality in Time 1 Running Head: Causality in Time Causality in Time: Explaining Away the Future and the Past

This chapter is presented in three sections corresponding to three models that incorporate Bayesian explaining away between different sources. The first section considers primes and targets as potential sources without reference to time. The original ROUSE model is reformulated as a generative model, arriving at the original equations but with slightly different dependence assumptions. The seco...

Environmently Responsive Education in Urban History

Admiration for environment in general needs to be profoundly rooted in an understanding of History. Urban history is unique not only in the fact that it reflects climate but also in that it cuts across many different fields. In most schools of urban studies many aspects of science and technology are taught with relation to design in order to attain skills for practice. During a student’s later ...