Teaching the Humanities
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 1991
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7130-0180-8 (ISBN)
Description
First Published in 1991. The contributors to this book share the belief that the teaching of humanities should form an essential part of the school curriculum. It includes the areas of the scope of humanities, the cultural dimension of classroom language learnings and cross-curricular subjects of Geography, Reglues Education, Art and History as well as looking at computer assisted learning, how to handle controversial issues and case studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
543 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7130-0180-8 (9780713001808)
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Peter Gordon
Teaching the Humanities
E-Book
10/2013
1st Edition
Routledge
€211.99
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Peter Gordon
Teaching the Humanities
E-Book
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Routledge
€211.99
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Peter Gordon
Teaching the Humanities
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10/1991
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Person
Peter Gordon (Editor) is Professor of Education in the History and Humanities Department at the University of London Institute of Education.
Content
Chapter 1 Approaching the Humanities, Peter Gordon; Chapter 2 The Scope of the Humanities, Richard Woff; Chapter 3 A Tale of Three Learners: The Cultural Dimension of Classroom Language Learning, Tony Burgess, John Hardcastle; Chapter 4 Geography and the Humanities, Vincent J. Bunce; Chapter 5 Religious Education and the Humanities, Josephine M. Cairns; Chapter 6 History and the Humanities, Peter Keelan, Alaric Dickinson; Chapter 7 *The structure of this chapter reflects syllabus planning for the GCSE (Mature) Examination undertaken by the writer on behalf of the London and East Anglian Examining Board., Anthony Dyson; Chapter 8 Controversial Issues in the Humanities: Helping Pupils to Handle Bias, Alex Porter; Chapter 9 Simulation and Computer Assisted Learning in the Humanities, Dickinson Alaric, Ashley Kent; Chapter 10 Lower School Humanities Courses: Three Case Studies, Ashley Kent;