Recent Research on History Teaching and Learning in the U.S.Kang, Sun-jooThis paper examines recent research on history teaching and learning in the U.S. Studies on history education since the late 1980s has been conducted with two broad questions: what should be taught in history and what is actually taught in the history classroom. Recently the history educators in the U.S. have increasingly focused on what teachers actually teach and what students actually learn in the history classroom using psychological methodology such as classroom observation and in-depth interview. As a result, they have produced new discourses on history teaching and learning and suggested new directions that history education should take.
Recent Research on History Teaching and Learning in the U.S.
Kang, Sun-joo
This paper examines recent research on history teaching and learning in the U.S. Studies on history education since the late 1980s has been conducted with two broad questions: what should be taught in history and what is actually taught in the history classroom.
Recently the history educators in the U.S. have increasingly focused on what teachers actually teach and what students actually learn in the history classroom using psychological methodology such as classroom observation and in-depth interview. As a result, they have produced new discourses on history teaching and learning and suggested new directions that history education should take.