The Practice of University History Teaching,9780719054914

The Practice of University History Teaching

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ISBN13: 9780719054914
ISBN10: 0719054915
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2000-06-10
Publisher(s): Manchester University Press
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Summary

This book provides a guide to good practice and its development in the teaching and learning of history in universities and colleges. Its wide range of contributors use a variety of approaches to examine recent thinking on the teaching of the subject, survey current practices, and provide practical advice to teachers and departments at a time of considerable change.

Author Biography

Alan Booth is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Nottingham.

Paul Hyland is Head of the School of Historical and Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University College.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures
vii
Acknowledgements viii
List of contributors
ix
Abbreviations and acronyms xiii
Introduction: developing scholarship in history teaching
1(16)
Alan Booth
Paul Hyland
I Context and course design
Teaching and the academic career
17(14)
Colin Brooks
Jeremy Gregory
David Nicholls
Creating a context to enhance student learning in history
31(16)
Alan Booth
Skills and the structure of the history curriculum
47(13)
Tim Hitchcock
Robert B. Shoemaker
John Tosh
Re-thinking the history curriculum: enhancing students' communication and group-work skills
60(10)
Hannah Barker
Monica McLean
Mark Roseman
Integrating information technology into the history curriculum
70(15)
Roger Lloyd-Jones
Merv Lewis
History in cyberspace: challenges and opportunities of Internet-based teaching and learning
85(16)
Guinevere Glasfurd
Michael Winstanley
II Enhancing teaching and learning
Motivating students by active learning in the history classroom
101(11)
Peter J. Frederick
Imaginative ideas for teaching and learning
112(13)
Peter Davies
Janet Conneely
Rhys Davies
Derek Lynch
`Deep learning' and the large seminar in history teaching
125(12)
John R. Davis
Patrick Salmon
Progression within modular history degrees: profiling for a student-centred approach
137(17)
John Peters
Christine Peterkin
Chris Williams
Teaching oral history to undergraduate researchers
154(12)
Alistair Thomson
Fieldwork in history teaching and learning
166(15)
Ian Dawson
Joanne de Pennington
III Learning and assessment
Reappraising and recasting the history essay
181(13)
Dai Hounsell
Assessing students in seminars: an evaluation of current practice
194(14)
Susan Doran
Christopher Durston
Anthony Fletcher
Jane Longmore
Assessing group work to develop collaborative learning
208(12)
Tony Nicholson
Graham Ellis
Assessing learning outcomes: tests, gender and the assessment of historical knowledge
220(13)
Susan Lovegren Bosworth
Robert S. Gossweiler
Kathleen F. Slevin
Learning from feedback on assessment
233(15)
Paul Hyland
Select bibliography 248(5)
Index 253

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