The History Instructor’s Short Shelf of Books on History Teaching and Learning
Start Here:
- Gerald Graff, Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003).
- Samuel S. Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001).
More On History Teaching and Learning:
- Alan Booth and Paul Hyland, eds., The Practice of University History Teaching (New York: Manchester University Press, 2000).
- Susan W. Gillespie, Perspectives on Teaching Innovations: Teaching to Think Historically (Washington, DC: American Historical Association, 1999).
- Tom Holt, Thinking Historically: Narrative, Imagination, and Understanding (New York: College Entrance Examination Board, 1999).
- Gaea Leinhardt, Isabel L. Beck, and Catherine Stainton, eds., Teaching and Learning in History (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994).
- Peter N. Stearns, Meaning Over Memory: Recasting the Teaching of Culture and History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).
- Peter Stearns, Peter Seixas, and Sam Wineburg, eds., Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives (New York: New York University Press, 2000).
- James F. Voss and Mario Carretero, eds., Learning and Reasoning in History, vol. 2. (London: Woburn Press, 1998).
On History and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:
- Mary Taylor Huber and Sherwyn P. Morreale, eds., Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground (Washington: Carnegie Foundation/AAHE, 2002).
- David Pace, “The Amateur in the Operating Room: History and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” American Historical Review October 2004 <http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/109.4/pace.html> (25 Jan. 2005).
On Intelligent Course Design and “Uncoverage”:
- L. Dee Fink, Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses (Alexandria: Jossey-Bass, 2003).
- Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, Understanding by Design (San Francisco: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998).