Reviving clio: Inspired history teaching and learning (without high-stakes tests)

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 468-473

  Stoskopf, Alan ^a  

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EID: 0039032461     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170108200613     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. I conducted interviews with 15 classroom history teachers and two resource specialists across the country between March and May 2000. The individuals were chosen based on my personal knowledge and on recommendations made by educators at the American Memory Project, History Alive, and Facing History and Ourselves.
2. Beverley C. Southgate, History: What and Why? Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern (New York: Routledge, 1996), p. 19.
3. Ernst Breisach, Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 232-33.
4. Monica Edinger, Far Away and Long Ago: Young Historians in the Classroom (New York: Stenhouse, 1998), p. 6. This excerpt is available on the Web at www.stenhouse.com/0044samp.htm.
5. Interview with a fourth-grade teacher in an independent school in New York, N.Y., 9 April 2000.
6. J. Walters et al., Immigrant 1850 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1990).
7. Interview with a public school seventh-grade teacher in Cambridge, Mass., 20 April 2000.
8. Charles Perfetti et al., "How Students Use Texts to Learn and Reason About Historical Uncertainty," in Mario Carretero and James Voss, eds., Cognitive and Instructional Processes in History and the Social Sciences (Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1994), p. 258.
9. Ibid., p. 257.
10. Sam Wineburg, "Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts," Phi Delta Kappan, March 1999, pp. 488-99.
11. Robert Bain, "Into the Breach: Using Research and Theory to Shape History Instruction," paper presented at the Spencer Foundation History Learning Conference, Pittsburgh, November 1998, p. 8.
12. Gaea Leinhardt, "History: A Time to Be Mindful," in Gaea Leinhardt, Isabel Beck, and Catherine Stainton, eds., Teaching and Learning in History (Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1994), p. 254.
13. Wendy Grolnick and Richard Ryan, "Autonomy in Children's Learning: An Experimental and Individual Difference Investigation," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 52, 1987, pp. 890-98.
14. Richard Ryan and Jennifer LaGuardia, "Achievement Motivation Within a Pressured Society: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations to Learn and the Politics of School Reform," Advances in Motivation and Achievement, vol. 11, 1999, p. 62.
15. Richard Ryan, "Higher Standards, Lower Quality: How the Politics of School Reform Affect Student and Teacher Motivation," presentation to a conference on "High-Stakes Testing: What Are the Effects?," Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., March 2000.
16. Ibid., p. 6.
17. Interview with a public high school teacher in Los Angeles, 6 April 2000.
18. Ibid.
19. Carlos Illescas, "Study: School Standards Go Too Far," Denver Post, 19 March 1999.
20. Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework, Department of Education, 1997, available on the Web at http://www.doe.mass.edu/ frameworks/history/archive/hist97/hissoc1_toc.html.
21. Interview with a public middle school teacher in Houston, 15 April 2000.
22. Interview with a public high school teacher on Long Island, 28 March 2000.
23. Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History (New York: Norton, 1995), p. 6.
24. Interview with a public high school teacher in New York, N.Y., 8 April 2000.
25. "Update on Curriculum Framework Study Groups," Memorandum, Massachusetts Department of Education, Maiden, 7 July 1995, pp. 1-8.
26. Jacqueline Ancess, Outside/Inside, Inside/Outside: Developing and Implementing the School Qualify Review (New York: National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1996), pp. 4-7.
27. Interview with Dan French, director of the Center for Collaborative Education, Boston, 28 May 2000.