Doing History
Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools
Linda S. Levstik & Keith C. Barton
Doing History
Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools
Linda S. Levstik & Keith C. Barton
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Description
This edition offers a unique perspective on teaching and learning history in the elementary and middle grades. Through case studies of teachers and students in diverse classrooms and from diverse backgrounds, it shows children engaging in authentic historical investigations, often in the context of an integrated social studies curriculum.
As a path-breaking, field-defining text, Doing History is a timeless, essential and mindful resource for social studies educators. In this revised edition, Levstik and Barton inspire teachers to confront the diverse realities of a complex and conflicted history by guiding students in the study of history as a multifarious array of choices complicated by social, political, and economic factors deeply rooted in cultural variation, controversy, perplexing dilemmas, and persistent historic issues. Grounded in authentic and research-informed classroom applications, each chapter presents tools to constructively empower students as transformative, agentic beings capable of engaging in historical inquiry which teaches them how to seek justice, learn from diverse people, exercise reasoned deliberation, intelligently participate in community-facing civil action, and live harmoniously in a complex, diverse world.
Tina L. Heafner, Professor of Social Studies Education, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA, and former President, National Council for the Social Studies
A foundational text for teaching history to elementary and middle school students! Through vivid teaching examples, Levstik and Barton show how young students can grapple with the complexities of history. The authors present theory-informed pedagogical practices for inquiry-based instruction, historical research, deliberation, and arts integration while also providing varied ways to assess students’ historical thinking and disciplinary skills and methods to support English Language Learners. This new edition includes updated classroom examples and the latest scholarship to guide educators in teaching controversy and inclusive histories. All social studies educators need a copy in their professional library!
Sara B. Demoiny, Assistant Professor of Elementary Education, Auburn University, USA.
Linda S. Levstik is Professor Emerita in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Kentucky, USA.
Keith C. Barton is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Adjunct Professor of History at Indiana University, USA.