History and Imagination
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- ISBN 9781610482974
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 157 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2012
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In History and Imagination, elementary school social studies teachers will learn how to help their students break down the walls of their schools, more personally engage with history, and define democratic citizenship. By collaborating together in meaningful investigations into the past and reenacting history, students will become experts who interpret their findings, teach their peers, and relate their experiences to those of older students, neighbors, parents, and grandparents. The byproduct of this collaborative, intergenerational learning is that schools become community learning centers, just like museums and libraries, where families can go together in order to find out more about the topics that interest them. There is an incredible value in the shared and lived experiences of reenacting the past, of meeting people from different places and times: an authority and reality that textbooks cannot rival. By engaging elementary social studies students in living history, whether in the classroom, after school, or in partnership with local historical institutions, teachers are guaranteed to impress upon the students a special, desired understanding of place and time.
Ronald Vaughan Morris teaches graduate and undergraduate students methods of elementary social studies at Ball State University. He is the author of Drama in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies, The Field Trip Book: Study Travel Experience in Social Studies, Bringing History to Life:First Person Presentations in Elementary,and Middle School Social Studies, as well as the co-author of 50 Social Studies Strategies for K-8 Classrooms (third edition).
