Suspicious History
Questioning the Basis of Historical Evidence
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2021
176 pages
978-1-4758-5318-6 (ISBN)
Description
Suspicious aims at providing teachers and students of history and related social sciences with ideas for critical thinking about past and present applied to documentation, images, and historical writing. Issues of perspective, bias, storytelling, patriotism and heroism, as well as interpretation are distributed among different chapters, along with guidance for making discussion provocative and involving, in light of principles for rethinking history.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-1-4758-5318-6 (9781475853186)
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Person
Jack Zevin is a lifelong student and teacher of history and the social sciences with an expertise in social studies education. He is an advocate for interactive and critical thinking methods of thinking about history in the Socratic tradition of questioning everything.
Content
Introduction
Chapter 1: Suspicious
Chapter 2: Facts
Chapter 3: Bias
Chapter 4: Story
Chapter 5: Lenses
Chapter 6: Pedestal
About the Author
Chapter 1: Suspicious
Chapter 2: Facts
Chapter 3: Bias
Chapter 4: Story
Chapter 5: Lenses
Chapter 6: Pedestal
About the Author
