Description:This guide is designed principally for instructors. It is also useful for those interested in a serious study of history. It presents history as a mode of thinking rather than a list of disconnected dates and names and places. We recommend that it be used in conjunction with the Student Guide to Historical Thinking. Both guides are based on the idea that history, like all subjects, must be understood in terms of the reasoning that is embedded in it. In other words, these guides begin with the premise that all historians ask historical questions, formulate historical purposes, begin with historical assumptions, develop historical concepts and theories, reason from historical perspectives, and think through historical implications.This guide begins with a focus on some important theoretical understandings in history. The foundations of critical thinking are then introduced and linked with a conception of fairminded historical thinking. In the final section we offer instructional strategies for fostering fairminded historical thinking.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Historical Thinking: Bringing Critical Thinking Explicitly into the Heart of Historical Study (Thinker's Guide Library). To get started finding Historical Thinking: Bringing Critical Thinking Explicitly into the Heart of Historical Study (Thinker's Guide Library), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
146
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Foundation for Critical Thinking Press
Release
2014
ISBN
0944583504
Historical Thinking: Bringing Critical Thinking Explicitly into the Heart of Historical Study (Thinker's Guide Library)
Description: This guide is designed principally for instructors. It is also useful for those interested in a serious study of history. It presents history as a mode of thinking rather than a list of disconnected dates and names and places. We recommend that it be used in conjunction with the Student Guide to Historical Thinking. Both guides are based on the idea that history, like all subjects, must be understood in terms of the reasoning that is embedded in it. In other words, these guides begin with the premise that all historians ask historical questions, formulate historical purposes, begin with historical assumptions, develop historical concepts and theories, reason from historical perspectives, and think through historical implications.This guide begins with a focus on some important theoretical understandings in history. The foundations of critical thinking are then introduced and linked with a conception of fairminded historical thinking. In the final section we offer instructional strategies for fostering fairminded historical thinking.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Historical Thinking: Bringing Critical Thinking Explicitly into the Heart of Historical Study (Thinker's Guide Library). To get started finding Historical Thinking: Bringing Critical Thinking Explicitly into the Heart of Historical Study (Thinker's Guide Library), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.