Doing History: Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools. Levstik and Barton.

Resource Description
Discusses important historical thinking and research skills and reviews possible curriculum and lessons. Levstik and Barton use case studies to illustrate the different ways in which children can engage with historical studies in a culturally relevant fashion. They also review a variety of ways in which students' historical understandings can be formally assessed.

Uses
This book contains a lot of concrete and well explained illustrations of the ways in which students can "do history" in the classroom.

Limitations
The book does not contain a full explaination of Levstik and Barton's theories of historical literacy. However, their book Teaching History for the Common Good lays this out in a clear and concise fashion.

Full Citation

 * Levstik and Barton. Doing History: Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools. Laurence Erlbaum Associates. Mahwah, New Jersey. 1997.

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