History and Imagination: Reenactments for Elementary Social Studies
Book Details
Author(s)Ronald Vaughan Morris
PublisherR&L Education
ISBN / ASIN1610482980
ISBN-139781610482981
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank3,644,475
CategoryEducation
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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.
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